Yesterday wrote about dreams and I made a statement about the wider church often rejecting the role of dreams in our modern day pursuit of God.

I thought it might be helpful to write a little bit about why. This isn’t an exhaustive list by any means but here are 4 reasons.

• Dreams are unseen and unverified – there is nothing tangible in a dream and certainly nothing that can be verified by another source. Its all about what you have seen and experienced
• Dreams defy logic – dreams make total sense when we are in the dream but outside of it we find it hard to explain. We say things like “I was in Africa, but it was Scotland” or “I was flying but kind of running.” trying to explain them makes us look silly!
• Dreams can be infected – because we aren’t consciously engaged with them all sorts of sources can be at work. What we ate for supper, what we watched that day as well as what the enemy wants to infect our thoughts with. Most of us as kids were told that “it was only a dream”after we’d had a nightmare. Its therefore no surprise that as adults we discount them.
• Dreams feel unregulated – because of all of these reasons they just seem so unsafe, unregulated, and just too unreliable. How can we test them? How can me ensure that it was really God?

Therefore in our western logical world we often reject them as a legitimate way that God can communicate with us. So, does God communicate in this way, and if so why does God communicate in this way? We will write about that tomorrow