Muslims seeing Jesus in their dreams?

God is so amazing.  And we so don't get it!

Every day, I keep trying to accomplish supernatural things with natural abilities.  In all my trying I have come to understand a few fundamental truths.  Number one, the impossible really is impossible, unless we do it God's way and in God's time.  Number two, if it makes sense, it's probably not God's way.

Basically, if you want to really make a difference in the world, think of the best way you could accomplish that, and then do the opposite.  If you want to be rich, learn to be generous.  If you want to be first, chose to be last, if you want to be truly strong, be meek.  These are the kind of things that Jesus told us.  Even His plan for evangelism was sometimes to charge people not to tell anyone about what He had just done.  Really?  How does that make sense?

Sometimes we have guilted people into evangelism.  "If you don't tell these people about Jesus, they might die without Him and it will be on your head!"  Really?  If the LORD is not willing that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9), then certainly He would give opportunity to anyone who would choose Him.   Wouldn't He?  

Jesus was in no hurry to "save" people.  He just walked, encourage people to follow Him and walked some more.  I don't see Him pleading with anyone.  He didn't push anyone to choose Him.  He simply was, and those who were compelled to follow Him, followed him because they couldn't not follow Him.  It sounds simple doesn't it?  You don't have to be flurrying about trying to set up a program to reach people.  Just be present and ooze love out of your pores.  See?  It's learning how to ooze  love, that is the real task at hand.  God will do the rest.  

Here's a good example of opposites and oozing :)  In the last few decades there has been a concerted effort by Islamic state and others to wipe out Christianity in the middle east.  Many people believed it could be done with news articles giving count downs for when the last Christian would flee.  And who could imagine otherwise? Many, many Christians have been martyred, and many have fled their native countries in fear for their lives,  But... some of the fastest growing Christian populations in the world right now are smack dab in the center of the middle east.  That's right, in response to heavy opposition, more people everyday are turning to Jesus.

The big question is how?  Many start their seeking journey because of a dream.  Over and over Christian missionaries in the middle east are reporting waves of new converts all describing seeing Jesus in a dream.  It's nothing short of a miracle!  It lets me know once again that God will win in the end.  My job is simple (at least in theory).  All I need to do is let God do the tough stuff and learn to ooze :)