Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
Year B
1 Kings
Ephesians 5:15-20
Dreams and nightmares – what is the difference
This week I watched this really cool video from Honda Corporation of all places, on dreams and nightmares. It talked about why we dream. Dreaming is thinking in an altered state, said one expert on the video. And it showed clips on how we dream, and how the mind can put together thoughts in a dream in really strange ways, for instance they showed a dream of someone cooking a boot on the stove.
The video helped me to realize that there is really no difference between our dreams and nightmares. They are both our minds way of trying to work something out. The difference is our reaction, nightmares play upon our fears that we are usually afraid to face in a waking state.
The difference is in the way we interpret them and the meaning we place on what is happening. A nightmare is a dream.
Solomon found that out the night he talked with God in a dream
He Asked for wisdom to lead his country. and God gave him more. God felt that because his heart was in the right place, that he would also have the things that make life enjoyable, a good life, health, riches, and wives.
Sometimes Nightmare and a dream are the same thing. Solomon was fulfilling the dreams of his father. He built the temple, he built the kingdom, he gained a international reputation.
Solomon started out doing some amazing things
But in the later years not so much. He got cocky and started to tax the people the support his extravagant building projects, he lost the kingdom – what david united, was split apart again. He also married many wives, and at times started to adopt their religions, sometimes giving his own a second seat – breaking to commandment to put no other God before God. What started out at a dream come true, became a nightmare. He even stopped thinking about the wisdom which was so important to his daily rule.
Wisdom is the way we live our lives – and what we do. It is the choices that we make.
Ephesians picks up this theme of wisdom and doing the right thing
Everyone has to be filled with something – some filled with wine – you should be filled with the spirit says Ephesians.
Singing and rejoicing, Righteousness and Wisdom are the three themes of our scripture for today.
Wisdom is Defined as a doing the will of the lord
God has a vested interest in the way we use our time
Just as God had a vested interest in the way Solomon used his wisdom – God has that same interest in us and what we do with our lives.
eksagorazamenoie means buying time in the marketplace. We have a responsibility to buy our time, just as Solomon purchased wisdom and spend it wisely.
The way we use our time affects not just us, but the world. Filled with the spirit – living our lives according to gods will
Story of rubber, metal and glass. Some of our commitments are rubber commitments – it doesn’t matter if we follow them, if we break an appointment, we can just make it up when we realize we have done wrong and there is no love lost. Some of our commitments are metal – they make a lot of noise when we drop them – but the reality is they don’t break the relationship. And other commitments are glass – once broken they cannot be repaired, once the moment passes we cant make it up.
Our priority are glass commitments – time we spend in the will of God – is fragile and will break. God wants us to think about our glass – special time.
Heal and make a difference.
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