Yesterday, we began a new series – Dreaming God-Sized Dreams. As we begin a new year, we have the opportunity to think toward what might be different in 2018 – somehow better than last year. We think toward possibilities. We get to dream of what could be but isn’t.
In Ephesians 2:10, Paul tells us that we are God’s creation – his workmanship carrying his artistic touch. And not only are we physical products of God’s creative efforts, as believers we are also being created and transformed through Jesus in order to fulfill the plans God imagined us carrying out. Just as a father dreams of a future for his children, God dreams of a future in which each of us live into the potential for which we were created.
The exciting, and maybe a bit frightening, aspect of this text is that we are reminded that we were created to carry out good works but we are not told how exactly to do that. Jesus has shared what it looks like to live as his disciple. We have been given a mission – to make disciples, but how we actually carry out this mission is left to us.
In other words, we are invited into this creative process.
Just as God paraded the animals past Adam and told him to name them in Genesis 2, we are invited, and even called, to be imaginative in the ways we carry out our mission.
We are invited to dream!
What God-sized dreams will you dream today?
Clay in the Hands 
Been catching up on your blogs and wanted to let you know how encouraging I’m finding them. Thanks for writing.