God gave me a dream in the night that revealed how some in the body of Christ were choosing to skip out on learning fundamental basics of our faith, in order to quickly advance their own selves to achieve their ambitions in life. Mind you I had this dream two years ago, but in this season He is bringing this dream to mind.
In the dream I found myself attending a school for spiritual growth and biblical understanding alongside other students. Then a young lady walks into the classroom and tells the teacher, who was a pastor representing Jesus within the dream, that she will be attending another school. She walks out and I, simultaneously, heard it spoken in my spirit that she was attending her own school she made for herself. She had it in mind that she would advance faster on her own.
The teacher turned to us and said no one would be able to advance themselves without attending the right school. Let me be clear that this school in the dream did not represent any school here on earth, but rather a school in the spirit realm. The Lord spoke to my heart and said many in this age are seeking advancement in His Kingdom by their own ways and strength. Yet, how they define advancement resembles how the world does. They believe that to possess giftings, talents, acknowledgement of man and even power equates to success and advancement.
These children of God have lost sight, blinding themselves with wrong motives and intentions. Refusing to obediently walk as the Lord leads them they have marked out a path for themselves, but in vain. The Lord has lessons He wants us to learn and trials He allows us to endure in order to bring us growth both personally and spiritually. He wants us to find growth as we consistently hold onto spiritual disciplines and learn how to walk with Him.
Trying to cut corners by refusing to remain humble and teachable, refusing to allow more mature believers to speak into your life and refusing to develop a genuine and deep relationship with God never has a good outcome. Trying to do life our own way never leads to true joy and peace. And because God loves even these ones doing their own walk, He will use the consequences of their choices to bring them an understanding that His ways do in fact work best.
We’ve all tried to cut corners, choosing a path absent of Him; but recognizing our error and humbly returning to His process for each of us is a step towards growth. You might have seen others gain much in this life knowing they refused to be worked on by their Maker in order to gain quicker advancement, but without the growth they need to sustain what they’ve accomplished they potentially can lose it all.
Without obediently walking through the process He has set before us, we will find ourselves circling the same mountain again and again without progress. And we can sadly miss out on those things our hearts truly yearn for in our attempt to seek out things not in His plan for us.
“Instead, seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you.”
Luke 12:31