The other night I had a dream. In the dream I walked into a room where someone had been murdered, killed in cold blood. I was in a large windowed room. Many floors above a city. Hardwood floors, white walls, large windows. No furniture in my view. Empty, except for the blood splattered floor and a long white extension cord.

Who has dreams about murder? I have only had a few in 20 plus years, but when I do I look for the message. I do not get weird about it or suspect someone’s impending death.

I continued to watch the room. I felt that I was to move the cord to another outlet. To set a trap for someone who I thought was going to come in. I unplugged the cord and I moved it across the room. I left that room. Apparently I had some other things to do.Later on I overheard the conversation with police and news reporters over the death of the one upstairs. (I had never seen the person, just the scene I had described.) As I listened I heard a man jump in and describe the cord where had been and not where I had moved it to. I thought interesting. Others began to chime in. How did they get there? What did they know? One of them looked at me and a smile crept across his face. I was not worried about it, but even in the dream I pondered it.

I woke from the dream and gave it more thought. Days of thought in fact. Each day I looked at my notes and thought.

The first thing I was reminded of was the cover up in the Bible by the guards after Jesus came out of the tomb. “We must tell the people the guards were asleep and someone stole the body.” Matthew 28:11-15

I pondered that.

The next thing I uncovered as I thought was the trap I set in the dream. Who was caught? People who planned on using the death of someone for their own benefit. (There had been no visible body.) People who were willing to deceive, to hide, to misuse. In the dream they used the circumstance to publish and broadcast an agenda.

Why did I have to know? In the dream I felt it was important to expose a people set on bringing wrongness and abuse on the scene.

And finally what was the overall meaning?

I came to the following thoughts.

The enemy is in full force in the minds of people who believe they are doing right, even righteousness. The belief is revealed in the calling out of people, their sins and their mistakes. The extension cord represented power that was being misused in a manner of hurt towards others. It was attached to power, but not in its rightful place. (Good and evil.) My moving it was to place it in the rightful place. (grace) Not to deceive others or change the “scene” but to see life and life abundant.

The barren room showed me that many had forgotten the significance of the furniture in the temple, not to preach an old covenant, but to reveal the new. It foreshadowed a kingdom pattern. The absence of this furniture opened the doors to making one’s own pattern. The large windows and well lit space indicated to me the light of the Father coming in to lives. Why did the cord need to be exchanged? Because the death was the result of having all the good things about but not being plugged into the circuit of life and its provision. The other plug provided for good and ultimately evil.

There are many who will work to take away your life. To remove the goodness. Remain steadfast where you need to be and await the promise and the promise fulfilled. There is not a need to expedite for because we live outside of time God’s fullness is available always.

My friend Brian Simmons wrote this today. It is from his Passion Translation.

Light doesn’t have any fellowship with darkness.

“And don’t even associate with the servants of darkness because they have no fruit in them; instead, reveal truth to them. ¹²The very things they do in secret are too vile and filthy to even mention. ¹³Whatever the revelation-light exposes, it will also correct, and everything that reveals truth is light to the soul.b ¹⁴This is why the Scripture says, “Arise, you sleeper! Rise up from the dead and the Anointed One will shine His light into you!”

Paul was talking about workers of iniquity, those that would return man to works, causing a fall from the grace received.

I find myself angry at the continued attack against grace and identity. And yet I desire not to become Phariseeical  in my own pursuit with God, allowing others their beliefs. Let us not return to a pathway of death, but let us embrace the person of grace. Jesus.