The Stuff Dreams Are Made OfНамуна

The Realization of the Dream

One thing I know is that dreams restore people. Dreams help people pull themselves up by the bootstraps and get on with it. Dreams help us get up every morning, and they keep us awake at night about what could be and should be in the world around us. Joseph’s dream was coming to pass.

It takes years and years to see your dream come to pass. Scholars say it took Joseph roughly 20-25 years from the time he had the dream until the time he saw it fulfilled. The formula isn’t just time though. It’s time + process + growth. Time is going to move forward. Are you? Time moves forward no matter what. It just keeps ticking away. Our part in the process is growth. If we have a big dream then we need to be big people. The process of the dream is what helps us move forward in growth and see our dream happen!

At this point in our story, Joseph is living the life, but his dream wasn’t just about him being rich, powerful, and successful. This is just some of the perks of the dream. The dream is about restoration of family and relationships.The dream is that hearts be reunited and turned back towards each other in a loving and honoring way. For the next few chapters in Genesis, Joseph is working his way back towards restoration, and eventually his whole family is reunited. Joseph was filled with grace, a man of character and integrity. He didn’t respond in revenge, he was heartbroken and weeping to see his family reunited. The realization of a dream is to always bring restoration into the lives of others. Our dream should always be others-motivated.

The goal of a God-given dream is about connecting others to God through a relationship with Jesus. Remember, if our dream is just about us then our dream is too small.