THE LONG MESSIANIC DREAM

              

When we were young, we all had a dream, to us as children, we would not call it a dream but we just know it as a future ambition, we would even abuse anyone who does know what he/she wants to become, we called them ‘NFAs’- No Future Ambition. We all wanted to become something, to be a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer, a pilot, a footballer, a journalist or newscaster, a banker or an accountant, even as young as we were we dreamt big, nobody wants to be a carpenter, or a bricklayer, a plumber or even a teacher. If you mistakenly mention being a pastor or an evangelist to your mates, they will laugh their asses off.

                As we continued in our irreversible increase in size, so many artifacts collided and mixed with our so called dreams. The society summoned and threatened us that if we continued chasing that our dream, we would not make it, they advised that if we move to another broader society, maybe the atmosphere there will favor our dream, they commanded us to stop or else hell will break loose on us (in the government’s voice). Our parents and those that we see as our fore-runners made matters worse for  our dreams, they pulled the lever, and our dreams choked to death, “death by hanging.’’ They told us, “Look at me, I was once like you, I also had the same dream but I could not make it, here I am working as a personal assistant; helping another man live his dream, you are only being childish, if I cannot live my dreams then who are you to? You better go this way, that was what your uncle did and now he has his own car, his own house, in fact, he is happily married, you better follow suit.” Since we had no choice as we thought, we had to surrender our dreams to death. It is not surprising because even what we thought was a dream was not even close to a hallucination, it was a mere wish though for some it was really a dream. I will not blame us, because we were young, innocent and vulnerable, we could not distinguish between a dream and a wish. What a nightmare!

                Now that our epiphyseal plate as fused completely, life as dawned on us like a shot to the face of a goalkeeper, like an intelligent student put on probation. Our eyes of understanding that was once atretic has been made stenotic; from closeness to openness. We now have dreams, dreams that are far real and selfless than being just a lawyer or a doctor. When were young we behaved like children but now that we have grown, we behave like adults. Now we dream of changing the world, impacting lives wherever we find ourselves in anyway. We no longer look down on the course of our study or our profession because we now know that changing lives does not depend solely on what we do or what we have but on who you are. Many like me will even say “I have a grief in me; a dream for all humanity, to pierce to pieces the ungodly, to bring to light the ignorant, to revolve the earth inside out.” chroniclesofsua.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-grief-in-me.html?m=1. We have widened our scope, no more societal limits, for we now bold to face the world.

                In this world of some many dreams, it is pathetic that as grown up as so many are, they are without a dream yet they live. As matured as many have seen themselves, they still cannot draw a line between a wish and a dream. Some people have even become crafty in their wisdom and subtle in their imagination, they do not call it a ‘wish’ again bit a ‘long throat’. You will recognize them when you see their display picture, when you hear them talk, they will always say, “l long throat for a Lamborghini, I long throat to shake hands with the president, I long throat to sit in the same car with my Nicki Minaj.” All they do is ‘long throating’ but what I do know is that their throats cannot be as long as a giraffe’s. To convince themselves and to make people around believe that they are really dreaming and that they are not in the league of the ‘NFAs’, they will photoshop their picture with that of the president, shaking hands; For God has given them a reprobate mind. I do not have time for the wishers today, for the breathe in me as not inspired me to address their case.

                The dream chasers are my friends; they will not rest until they make their dreams happen. I don’t know who you are or where you belong to but if you are a dream chaser, I salute you because you will live your dreams, no matter what the world says, what the economy says, what our parents, friends or pastors say. Having a dream is not trying something regardless of the evidence; Dreaming is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. People will tell you to quit, they will say that you are only daydreaming but you must continue to chase your dream regardless of odds because that your dream is messianic, it has the power to save the world. Though, you might have been chasing it for so long, for 20 years I guess, even more than and it seems you will not get there, it seems that you have been fooling around all along but listen, you have heard the discouraging words humans  long enough, it is high time you listened to God, He is saying to you, “For your vision(dream) is yet for an appointed time but in the end it shall speak and not lie; though it tarries, wait for it because it will surely come, it will not tarry (it will not be long in it coming), Habakkuk 2:3. Joseph went from having a dream into the pit, to Potiphar’s house, into the prison before getting to the palace.  It is a dream, so it has to take time before it becomes real but go and make it plain upon tables with pen and paper, that he may run that reads it, so that the long-throaters, the well-wishers, and the dream losers may help you live your dreams when the time comes.

                Dear dream loser, there is hope for you, for Joseph is not better than you. He once had a dream but when he told it to his brethren, they hated him and so for what they said and for family’s sake, he gave up his dream; he lost it but the bible says, “And Joseph dreamt yet another dream, Gen 37:5-9. If Joseph could dream again, who are you not to?  If you can just be determined to follow your dream till the end, you will dream again and this time you will dream big, for people will not only bow to your upright sheaf but even the sun, the moon and the stars will make obeisance to you.

                As for me, I decided that even in this world and weary land, where many a dream has died, like a tree planted by the water, I will never run dry..