I had a dream this afternoon while I was sleeping. Rats in a kitchen. I was explaining to a man (a man that I now know was Jesus) that I couldn't get rid of the infestation of rodents. They were everywhere! Crawling on the floor, the cabinets, in boxes of food, over our feet.
An extremely large rat walked onto the countertop and simply sat down looking at the Man. Finally HE said, "This is how you have to get rid of them."
On a nearby table was a pair of long cooking tongs (the fancy kind w/rubber tips) and He grabbed the rat by the neck and summarily broke it's neck. Calmly He walked to the door and tossed it out. As He came back in all the smaller rats sat up, looked at Him and fled!
The kitchen was clean of rats.
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I retell the dream to say: The most important figure in that dream wasn't the rats or even me, it was Christ.
It took me the better part of the evening to reall analyze the dream and with the help of my son and my best friend I realized that it wasn't about how I could rid the kitchen of the rats . . . it was about me letting Jesus Christ do His job!
So . . . there are real rats in the sanctuary of my church. More specifically I believe there is a single big rat. Beady eyes, yellow venomous teeth exposed. A rat that came in with others and is trying to make a nest to breed inside the walls of JBC.
I, in my flesh, want to handle the rat problem myself. Glue traps, snap traps, poison etc......God used the dream to show me that the problem will not leave unless I let HIM handle it.
He was merciful (in the dream) in simply snapping the rats neck. The death was painless and quick but effective. That's how Christ can remove a problem in any church - with painless ease if we will simply step back and let Him work.
So - to the rat I say - scurry around all you want for a while but the Judge is coming. Your time is very short.
Snap. Toss. You are gone and you won't hinder the work of God.
