You may never know how many lives are uplifted and enriched by the refreshing aroma of your obedience.
A cherished dream can be like a jeweled container of precious perfume. It glows in our hearts and incites all our decisions and actions. Frequently we take it out to admire its beauty and inhale its fragrance.
If the dream is broken, we feel betrayed, robbed, bereft, heart-sore and bewildered.
I know of only one way to ensure against the brutal theft of noble ambitions and deep longings when the dream is unfulfilled. Take this costly perfume, in which you have invested so much, and pour it out at the feet of Jesus. Nothing lavished on Him will ever be wasted. The pleasing odour will bring joy and refreshing to God's heart and the fragrance will remain in your heart and in your life forever. You can turn a temporal dream into an eternal aroma.
God created us with emotions and they should not be denied. The acknowledging of feelings in the expression of emotions is never wrong unless we allow our emotions to control us to the point where they dictate our behaviour. The pain and tears of a submissive heart are often the ingredients of a fragrant love-gift to the Lord Jesus.
Before you were born, you existed in the mind of God and you were precious in His heart. With more than five billion people on this planet, He devised a very personal plan and purpose and destiny just for you.
You are so significant and of inestimable value.
You may never know how many lives are uplifted and enriched by the refreshing aroma of your obedience, even while your heart is aching.
With love and prayers,