Last night I was having a dream, I'm not sure the purpose of it and I cannot remember all of it either, however what I do remember was quite interesting, especially when you bring it into a different light.
In the dream the world was ruled by an alien entity simply referred to as the Emperor. This being used its technology to brainwash everyone, making them all worship him and to do as he desired. I was a fugitive, one who had not yet been brainwashed, and I was fleeing from his minions. I was successful at evading them for a time, but eventually they caught me and took me to the Emperor who used his device against me. The device was supposed to make me worship him and also changed my appearance a bit so that I could be identified as a particular type of person in his society. I was placed at the bottom, a fool as they were referred to, and to prove it I was given multi-colored hair. After the change was done I was released into one of the large chambers where a group of people stayed, there was only the person who brought me here with me at the time. Once I was sure it was safe I approached the person, I had not been brainwashed as they assumed and I believed I knew a word that would undo the brainwashing, which was why it didn't work on me. So once I was by this person I whispered in their ear the word and instantly they were restored to their former mindset. We kept our ruse going as the rest of the people who lived in this chamber returned and I freed a few more of them as the opportunity showed itself. I had to be quick and discrete about it so that I wouldn't be discovered, but each one that I shared the word with was instantly freed from their brainwashing and joined me in my quest.
The dream contained other parts as well, but I think these are the parts I want to talk about today. It didn't matter the role I had been in during the dream or who the other people were, the important thing was that all the people were slaves to this Emperor, who can be compared to Sin, and there was a way to set the people free. In all the world people are slaves to their sins and they may not even be aware of it or they may worship it so much that they do not see it for what it is. In the dream I was someone who was not a slave and could not be made a slave, this can be compared to being a Christian, for the Lord protects those who He has set free. Then the most important part of it all, a word that sets others free, this is clearly the gospel being shared to unbelievers. It is the Word alone who sets the sinner free and without Him there is no salvation from sin and no escaping from the slavery that it has you in.
So my dream seems to be a representation of the life that we are living in, there are those of us who are free and cannot be made slaves again because we know the Word. Because we know this Word we must share it with others so that they can be freed as well and then encourage them to continue on, spreading the Word that brings freedom from slavery. Isn't it amazing how simple God made it to set the sinner free? Though not all are saved from hearing the gospel, it is no less amazing how incredibly simple our role in this whole process is. We share the Word that we know and then God can use this to set them free from their slavery.
