Messages You snooze you loose
"For a dream cometh through the multitude of business." Ecclesiastes 5:3 (KJV)
It's 6am and the alarm goes off... "No-ooooo, puhleez... it can't be time to get up yet," you tell yourself as your hand reaches for the snooze button. You feel the night lasted only five minutes; you're still dead tired, and could really do with a couple more hours' sleep. But you know you've got to get up. Your boss has been watching you and you know if you arrive late for work it won't help the situation...
Fast forward seventeen hours later to 11:35pm.
You've had a very busy day. You've lost count how many phone calls you made and received today (including the one from your mom five minutes ago checking up on you). You commuted to and from work, tried to catch up on the news by listening to talk radio in the car, worked hard all day, hardly had time to eat a proper meal. Now you're tired, you know you should sleep, but you've been longing for a break all day, so you sit in front of the TV to try and "relax" - but tomorrow morning you know you will be anything but relaxed, just to start the whole thing all over again.
Never before have people's lives been so busy. The inventions that were supposed to help us save time - the car, the telephone, the computer, the Internet, etc - have only helped make us busier and do more and more in less time.
Meanwhile, we have no time to dream. Think about it. Have you found yourself thinking things like, "I've got to do something about my future, I can't go on living like this"; "I really have to do something about my job, my education, my love life, my children..." - have you? But although the thought is gnawing at the back of your mind, the affairs of life keep overtaking you and you never have time to do anything about it.
"Time is unforgiving. It will keep passing and you will get older. Opportunities will be missed. Dreams will remain dreams."
Yes, you can be too busy to dream.
And the problem is that if you don't do something about it, you will always be too busy for the really important things in your life. Time is unforgiving. It keeps passing and you keep getting older. Opportunities are missed. Dreams remain just dreams.
Life will live you, but you won't live life.
Satan knows the power of keeping us busy. He already used this trick thousands of years ago in Egypt: "For they are idle; therefore they cry out, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Let more work be laid on the men, that they may labour in it, and let them not regard false words... You are idle! Idle! Therefore go now and work..." Exodus 5:8-9,17-18
Pharaoh's strategy to get the Israelites to stop thinking about leaving Egypt for a better life was to make them work twice as hard!
You have to beware of this strategy. You need to take control of your life. The only dreams you will have when you are too busy are the dreams you have when you are tired in your sleep... "For a dream [in the night] comes through the multitude of business." (Ecclesiastes 5:3) To have waking dreams, you need to keep your mind free from business and focus on your goals.
I'm not suggesting you quit your job, stay in bed, and never watch TV again so you can start dreaming. I'm only saying you need to take life into your own hands and be in control; stick to what is really important and drop what is not. Take the helm in your life and decide where you want it to go, then you will achieve your dreams. Otherwise, you will stay adrift in this vast ocean of life and only arrive somewhere by chance.
Do something about it NOW! Unless of course you're too busy - in which case I'm sorry for interrupting you.
Bishop Renato Cardoso
