Some Dreams Don't Die

Dreamers are hard on their families and themselves. They spend much of their time thinking about what could be, rather than what is. The biggest dreamers are the toughest to endure. They fly off without thinking about it, and before you know it, they’ve dragged their family across the country or have invested their retirement in some crazy scheme. It is their abiding belief that if this one thing could just work out the right way, they’d be set for life.

Some dreams do come true, thankfully. I think if we lived in a world where sin had complete sway we would not see that. The wonderful modern times we live in, and everything associated with that, would not have come about had it not been for dreamers willing to sacrifice to make it happen. The ideals of the United States, the Constitution, and the civil rights movement were all the results of people who said, “I have a dream.”

Genesis 6:1-8
"When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years." 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. 5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth--men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air--for I am grieved that I have made them." 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD." 

Most dreams fail. It is the hard reality of living in a world full of corruption. It is part of the curse God put upon Adam and Eve and their descendants – life is hard, and difficulties are part of human existence. God’s dream for the human race had failed – not on His account, He did everything right –  but because of our human tendency to rebel when given the chance. His heart was filled with pain, as He watched His dream unravel into horror.

Successful dreamers know how to begin again. Thomas Edison tried out thousands of light bulbs before finding the right combination of elements to make it work. He knew if he was persistent enough, he would find the solution. And so, in the midst of God’s sorrow over His creation, He found a way to make it work – Noah had found favor in His eyes. Noah would be the crucial element in preventing the total failure of creation. Noah was a Dreamer’s best hope.