A Nightmare, A Dream

 

 

Alarmed by a strange dream, I woke the next morning and thought about it. The symbolism began to be revealed.

I was floating along in a crystal, clear river.  It was beautiful and lush with green foliage along the banks. Healthy, aquatic plants were growing and it appeared to be perfect.  Then, while floating with the current, there was a huge head of a fish that had been dead for a long time.  It was mostly decomposed as it floated with the last bits of rotted flesh lifting from it  There were no longer eyes in the sockets.  I was grossed out and I shoved it away from me with the wooden pole I had in my hand. 

Having been disrupted by my shove and coming out from inside the cavity of the rotting fish head, were many beautiful, small, young fish.  They were a different kind. They were vibrant, alive, clean and striped in colors like a rainbow.  I shoved the disgusting head further away and they chased after it to go back inside and “feed.”  I shoved the head again and the young ones were exposed.  I was so bothered that they attempted to return to the decomposed head  and I began to smack the water over the top of them to keep them from returning to the rotting head again, long enough for them to see what was all around them.  The river had so much to offer them in way of life and good things to eat and beautiful places to dwell.  I woke up grossed out and upset.

The setting, river and flow was spiritual and of God’s essence and perfect creation and life.  The small, living fish were like young ones made with promise, given all that they need to live in ways of good and beautiful things out in the light of God and all that lives.  Instead, they chose to feed on the “mind” of a fish that had been before them.  It had been another fish that was bigger and died and rotted. Mortal.  They were living in the dark, inside of this dead head and feeding off of it.

It made me think of the young ones that follow men’s thoughts and feed off of them. Feeding off of men that had maybe one time been great or highly regarded. But, each one of these great minds met the same mortality of death and decay. By living in and off of it they miss the fullness of their spiritual life.

That’s where the creation all around them was being ignored.  That the life and fullness of  life through the Holy Spirit  were being left because they didn’t understand how much promise they were given Spiritually and in life all around them from the Giver of Life.  They had been given so much, but they were not living in it. 

The one great mind of Christ, esteemed to at least have been very wise and good by the least of believers,  never saw decay. 

 In His resurrection and power He stood alone as God with us.

Psalm 16:9-11 NLT

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely. 10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. 11You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

Acts 13:35  So it is also stated elsewhere: "'You will not let your holy one see decay.'

John 2:22 NIV  After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

1 Corinthians 2:15-16 NIV  But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. 16 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.

This is Matthew Henry’s Commentary on 1 Corinthians 2:15-16 taken from Biblehub.com.

“This is most clear testimony, both to the real Godhead and the distinct person of the Holy Spirit. The apostles were not guided by worldly principles. They had the revelation of these things from the Spirit of God, and the saving impression of them from the same Spirit. These things they declared in plain, simple language, taught by the Holy Spirit, totally different from the affected oratory or enticing words of man's wisdom. The natural man, the wise man of the world, receives not the things of the Spirit of God. The pride of carnal reasoning is really as much opposed to spirituality, as the basest sensuality. The sanctified mind discerns the real beauties of holiness, but the power of discerning and judging about common and natural things is not lost. But the carnal man is a stranger to the principles, and pleasures, and actings of the Divine life. The spiritual man only, is the person to whom God gives the knowledge of his will. How little have any known of the mind of God by natural power! And the apostles were enabled by his Spirit to make known his mind. In the Holy Scriptures, the mind of Christ, and the mind of God in Christ, are fully made known to us. It is the great privilege of Christians, that they have the mind of Christ revealed to them by his Spirit. They experience his sanctifying power in their hearts, and bring forth good fruits in their lives.”

I believe the smooth, wooden pole I held was representative of the cross of Christ as I stirred up the waters of His Spirit to keep the promise-filled young ones from going back to filling themselves on the minds of those who cannot compare to the Holy and risen mind of Christ.  It is my prayer and dream that many would see and understand in ways they had not before and live in the fullness of life. 

John 16:13 ESV  When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.