Karolyne considers the challenges to our faith when we are faced with obstacles to our dreams in life
Think for a moment about your most impossible dream, the one that feels too big, too far away, almost unreachable. What would it take to accomplish it?
Despite following Jesus, our humanity shows up, often unexpectedly. Self-doubt and lack of faith creep in and we begin to measure our dreams with human logic instead of divine possibility. Then the question arises: What is that dream?
An ordinary moment
That question came up during a devotional time around a table while I was visiting my family at my uncle’s home in Miami, USA. Together with my parents, my uncles and my grandmother, God began to speak about dreams, promises and conquest. It wasn’t a traditional altar or an extraordinary moment in human terms. It was a table. But it was there that we understood that the will of God is revealed in the ordinary.
In that space, we asked ourselves: What is our big dream, and how, together with God, can we conquer it?
Scripture introduces us to someone who truly understood what it means to conquer: Caleb, a warrior who walked alongside Joshua and carried for many years a specific promise from God, a mountain. That mountain was not a whim; it was a promise. While others saw giants and settled, Caleb believed. After years of waiting, he declared in faith, ‘Now, therefore, give me this mountain’ (Joshua 14:12 KJV).
Caleb did not dream small because he knew the greatness of the God he served. That is the posture of faith we are invited to embrace.
Don’t limit your dreams
A few months ago, while speaking with God, something deeply caught my attention. In my heart, a simple yet powerful truth echoed: ‘I am the Creator. Do not limit Me.’ I understood something. God does not fit into a box. Not the box of our logic, our fears or our small dreams.
When a dream seems impossible, you are forced to bring God into it, and then God makes it possible. But when the dream is small, something anyone could achieve, you feel tempted to take God out of the equation, and what was possible, becomes impossible
Sometimes we dream small, so we won’t disturb, so we won’t bother, so the dream feels ‘achievable’. But when we dream this way, we are not measuring God by who God is, but by who we are.
In many cases, religiosity has silenced the desire to grow, disguising it as a false kind of spiritual conformity. We were taught not to aspire too high, not to ask for too much, as if that were humility. Yet Scripture shows us a God who invites us to ask boldly. He himself says, ‘Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession’ (Psalm 2:8 NKJV).
Don’t walk alone
Preacher Cash Luna expressed this clearly when he said, ‘When a dream seems impossible, you are forced to bring God into it, and then God makes it possible. But when the dream is small, something anyone could achieve, you feel tempted to take God out of the equation, and what was possible, becomes impossible.’
Conquest does not begin when the dream is fulfilled, but when we stop limiting God in the process. Dreaming small is not humility; it is forgetting who God is.
The same Creator who formed the heavens is the one who plants dreams in our hearts, and he never intended for us to carry them alone. That is why a dream can never be separated from the dreamer.
Dream with God. Plan with God. Ask in faith. Walk with patience. And when the time comes: conquer!
Because when we stop putting God in a box, faith stops being an idea and becomes a living reality.
