MAX ON LIFE

26. I want to become a doctor and work with the poor, but this seems like an impossible dream. My heart tells me this dream is from God, but my parents think I'm being foolish. How do I keep their doubts from destroying my dream?

Let's be honest - there's a lot in life that doesn't make sense.

School. Friends. The news. Politics. Wall Street. Even God's track record in the Bible doesn't make a lot of sense:

• Transporting a million or so people across the desert for forty years to a mysterious promised land (Exodus - Deuteronomy)
• Whittling a thirty-two-thousand-man army down to the three hundred in order to attack the most feared warriors in the land, then arming the tree hundred men with trumpets, jars, and torches (Judg 7:1-16)
• Saving the world through a baby born in a barn (Luke 2:1-7)
• Spreading the gospel to the world with twelve imperfect men - a treasurer who took bribes, a confidant who denied Jesus, and another who preferred to run away naked than get captured (Matt 26:14-16; John 12:4-6; Matt 26:69-75; Mark 14:51-52)

So if someone has a dream that makes perfect sense, it really couldn't be from God. That's not how he dreams!

We forget that impossible is one of God's favorite words. He dreams impossible dreams. Why?

If you accomplish a possible dream, then you get all the glory.

But if you accomplish an impossible dream, then God gets all the glory.

The purpose of impossible dreams is to show the world that an incredible, unbelievable God still exists, and he works in the lives of people.

And it all begins with dreams like yours of reaching the poor and destitute.

While it may seem your parents are dousing your passion with doubt, they could be injecting some much-needed wisdom into your plans for fulfilling your dream. Your parents do love you and want to ensure you make the best decision. So listen to them. Practicality and logic aren't all bad. Doubt may be caution in disguise.

In the end, you must ask yourself whose dream am I going to follow: mine, my parent's or God's? God's dreams are always bigger and better and more unbelievable. His dreams look like these:

• Your neighbors.... your community.... your school coming to Christ
• Churches in your zip code coming together to pray for revival
• An end to hunger and disease in just one country
• Peace on earth

Dare to dream like God.

By: Max Lucado