Gracious to Provide
Lisa: He was living large in the eyes of God but history will tell us that Jeremiah was not a famous person in his society. You'd like to think, "Okay, great he was big in God's eyes, but what about the parent's dreams that probably he would have some prominent position in the community." That wasn't the case. In fact, we know that he had received no notoriety at the time of his death. No notoriety in the society in which he lived. But what we have to realize is that God's dreams are bigger than anything we know in our world today. That's where he received his great reward was what he did for God and his obedience there, and that dream that God has was so much larger and as you say, monumental in comparison to what his parents might have had.
Ed: Lisa, tell the story that occurred last summer when we went on vacation to the Gulf Coast of Florida and how that relates to dreams.
Lisa: Well, just to illustrate how limited we are, but how God is just so gracious to provide his dream for us, we went to Florida last year to the Gulf Coast. We were real excited about taking a break. Our children had been to the beach, but the twins had never been to the beaches like in Florida where you have the big white beaches, with sand and shells.
Ed: You mean better than Galveston?
Lisa: It was better than Galveston. So we had talked about the shells that they would find and how fun it was going to be. We drove down this street and finally found our duplex where we were staying. It was typical of a Florida parking lot covered in those crushed shells that they just dump and spread. That is what you drive on and park on. We pulled up in the carport and hopped out just as the sun was setting. We left the bags in the car and just got out and said, "Let's go to the beach and see the sunset." We all headed that way and Ed Young Jr and I thought someone was missing. We turned around and the twins were on their knees in the garage picking up cracked shells. They were going "Oh, there's shells. Look at the shells we read about, we talked about and here they are." They were just so enthused about these bleached white pieces of shell in the carport. We were like, "Come on, guys, the real shells are over here. The beach, the sunset, come on." They wouldn't come. They were just picking up cracked shells.
Ed: Lisa, tell the story that occurred last summer when we went on vacation to the Gulf Coast of Florida and how that relates to dreams.
Lisa: Well, just to illustrate how limited we are, but how God is just so gracious to provide his dream for us, we went to Florida last year to the Gulf Coast. We were real excited about taking a break. Our children had been to the beach, but the twins had never been to the beaches like in Florida where you have the big white beaches, with sand and shells.
Ed: You mean better than Galveston?
Lisa: It was better than Galveston. So we had talked about the shells that they would find and how fun it was going to be. We drove down this street and finally found our duplex where we were staying. It was typical of a Florida parking lot covered in those crushed shells that they just dump and spread. That is what you drive on and park on. We pulled up in the carport and hopped out just as the sun was setting. We left the bags in the car and just got out and said, "Let's go to the beach and see the sunset." We all headed that way and Ed Young Jr and I thought someone was missing. We turned around and the twins were on their knees in the garage picking up cracked shells. They were going "Oh, there's shells. Look at the shells we read about, we talked about and here they are." They were just so enthused about these bleached white pieces of shell in the carport. We were like, "Come on, guys, the real shells are over here. The beach, the sunset, come on." They wouldn't come. They were just picking up cracked shells.
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