The Fiery Hammer and the Useless Dreams

"The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?"

                                                                                         Jeremiah 23:28, 29

I've always been fascinated by these words.  God spoke these words to His prophet Jeremiah almost 2500 years ago.  Jeremiah was dealing with people who valued their dreams over God's Word.  Did they have dreams about the future?  Maybe, but it didn't make any difference.  The false prophets were telling the people that Jerusalem wouldn't be destroyed, and they convinced the people that Jeremiah couldn't be trusted.  God's Word was clear, unmovable, and inerrant, but the "dreams" of those religious people were fallible and untrustworthy.  In the end, Jerusalem was levelled, just like God promised would happen, and all the dreams of the prophets came to nothing.

This reminds me of what's happening in our society.  I talk to people and I hear about their "thoughts" and "dreams" that they have on truth and religious matters, but personal thoughts and dreams aren't the things upon which we can build a foundation.  Only God's Word stands.  Be careful about putting stock in anyone's dreams or thoughts.  The Bible is the only information that you can trust.  Be especially careful when someone tells you of a dream that is in direct contradiction of biblical truth.  If they truly had a dream like that, it didn't come from God!

I like the way the Lord simply said, "Have your dreams, and the one who has My Word, let him keep proclaiming it faithfully!"  God's word is the wheat, and our human dreams and opinions are the chaff.  Only the wheat will survive.  Only the wheat will nourish.  Only the wheat is worth keeping.

In the coming day of judgment, God's Word will burn through the false and break in pieces the opposition, and every "dream" upon which so many people place so much value, at the expense of loving and obeying the Bible, will be completely forgotten.