Living the Dream

These Riau Malay young men are living the dream. They are all members of the Provincial soccer team. If they do well on this team, they may have the chance to play for Indonesia’s national soccer team. In pursuit of this dream they all discipline themselves and devote huge amounts of time and energy into playing soccer. Every Indonesian boy at some point dreams of having this opportunity.

While these men waited for the soccer field to open up for their practice match, a worker had the opportunity to sit with them and share about God’s method of having their sins forgiven. Just as the worker finished sharing, the soccer field opened up and the men had to go.

The worker watched the men run off to their practice and thought of the nursery rhyme – Row, Row, Row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream. Life slips by so quickly, and gently if we are chasing a dream, but after the dream we call life is over everyone will have to wake up and stand before Holy God. On that day our ability to score a goal on the soccer field will not help us answer the problem of sin.

What these young men were pursuing was not wrong or sinful, but the pursuits of this world don’t lead anyone to life unless the ultimate matters of seeking peace with God are dealt with. Too many times the pursuits of this world seem more important and more pleasant than matters of faith and life slips gently by us until it’s too late.

Pray that as the peoples of Sumatra chase their dreams they will wake up to the reality of sin and receive God’s payment before it’s too late.

Pray for workers not to lose heart as they call the spiritually dead to new life.

Pray for the apathetic to clearly see the spiritual danger of sin and judgement.