There have been days that I had the most amazing devotional thought for this blog, but I never followed through and put pen to paper, or more accurately, fingers to keyboard. They were great ideas, and some of them made me really stop and think. But you will never know them because they were an untapped potential that remained in my mind. What aspirations or ideals or even dreams dance in your head when you lay your head down or walk down an aisle picking up groceries? No one will ever know them unless you speak them into existence. And about 7,000 years ago, that’s precisely what God did:

“My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.” Isaiah 55:11 BSB.

Genesis chapter 1 tells us of the beginning of earth’s history. God came upon a blank canvas, and He began to speak what was in His heart; in His mind, God spoke His dreams into existence. And what exactly was His dream? The wisest man who ever lived told us that God: made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 BSB.

God made everything beautiful in their own time, meaning that He is meticulous, purposeful and what the King James Version of the Bible declares as long-suffering or patient. Then Solomon tells us that in addition to those characteristics, God has also placed eternity in the hearts of humanity. What does that even mean to beings that have a beginning and an end?

The best way to answer this question is to hear it from the God who placed it in our hearts: Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only TRUE God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.” John 17:3 BSB. Paul opens this up to the philosophers in Athens when he said: God intended that they [humanity] would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.” Acts 17:27 BSB.

God’s vision, His dream, He aspired to create individuals who would grow in beauty from the inside out and desire to be in a relationship with Him. David, the man called after the heart of God seemed to understand God’s deepest desire, for he penned: Give unto the LORD [YAHWEH] the glory due unto His name; worship the LORD [YAHWEH] in the beauty of holiness.” Psalm 29:2 KJV.

YAHWEH is the covenant, relational name of God. And here the shepherd-boy turned warrior-king tells us to honor this relational seeking Deity by giving the glory He is due and to spend time with Him in the beauty of holiness. Exodus 34 God describes His name, and it is the beautiful character of love displayed in a person. That Person came to earth and became known as Jesus. And according to John chapter 1, Colossians chapter 1 and Hebrews chapter 1, He is the God who partnered with His Father and spoke creation into existence.

Do you realize that you are the dream of God. And He didn’t just keep His beloved dream in His heart or His head, He spoke you into existence, an eternity ago, just so you could appear at this time in history. It may have taken thousands of years to come to fruition, but here you are, reading the reality that you are who He dreamt about so long ago.