I woke up this morning after a rather vivid dream, the kind of dream that I like to think about and explore the depths to discover if there is any meaning or significance I can gather for my life. It was an interesting dream, not a negative one or a particularly “feel good” dream, but definitely one that can be supported by a scripture! This is my dream:

I owned some land–it was mine, I knew that. My property was filled with sand dunes with occasional tufts of grass and grassy areas–there were also some wind-blown trees growing on the land. The land didn’t look fertile or good for much–it wasn’t beautiful–but I knew that a treasure was buried there. In the midst of the land was a fairly deep pit with old pop cans and an abandoned car at the bottom (I’m not sure what significance they held in my dream other than overlooking treasure because it may be hidden in less than obvious places).

I saw someone else there who was seeking the treasure, also. He was not a nice person; rather, he was the type who was self-seeking, who used manipulation to get what he wanted. Somehow, I felt that he was going to win, to find my treasure, and I was left with a sense of helplessness and resignation. He avoided the pit and I saw him jump into a particularly sandy place and begin to sink–for some odd reason, I jumped in too.

I was beginning to wake up at this point and wondered why ever in the world would I jump into a place that I knew could hurt and possibly kill me, especially since I could see it doing the very same thing to someone else? In my dream, I was still close to the edge of the quicksand so that I could grasp onto some grass to pull myself out, but I couldn’t do it–I wasn’t strong enough and the grass I was desperately attempting to grasp onto was not strong enough.

But then a smiling face appeared over the edge; he reached out his hand to me and pulled me up to the place where I could overlook the pit filled with trash and I knew that somewhere in there, he would help me find the treasure.

In my quiet time this morning I read Proverbs 27:12 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. My petition today, O Lord, is for safety instead of danger, for wisdom because if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him (James 1:5), and for the treasure to be revealed!

Some other verses that come to mind:

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:4, 5).

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ (2 Cor. 11:3).

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power my be of God and not of us (2 Cor. 4:7).