{"id":471850,"date":"2025-02-20T02:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=471850"},"modified":"2025-02-20T02:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:40:45","slug":"the-initiative-against-daydreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/the-initiative-against-daydreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Initiative Against Daydreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-21885cb995cf9ca1b82110322ade6854 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Come now; let us leave. \u2014 John 14:31<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dreaming and planning in order to do a task well is a good thing; daydreaming when we should already be doing is wrong. In John 14, Jesus gives a wonderful message to his disciples: \u201cVery truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these\u201d (v. 12). We might expect that, after delivering this message, Jesus would tell the disciples to go off and meditate on what he\u2019d said. Instead, he tells them to spring into action: \u201cCome now; let us leave.\u201d<br>There are moments when dreaming is appropriate. If we are patiently waiting before God and he says, \u201cCome with me by yourselves to a quiet place,\u201d this is an invitation to sit with him in contemplation (Mark 6:31). It\u2019s God\u2019s way of getting us alone so he can tell us what he wants us to do. But after he\u2019s told us, we have to watch out if, instead of taking action, we\u2019re inclined to keep dreaming about what he\u2019s said. God\u2019s blessing is never on idleness. When we get his wake-up call, we must go out and obey, leaving our dreams safely where we found them\u2014with God, the source of all our dreams and joys and delights.<br>Taking action is the way we show Jesus we love him. When you\u2019re in love, do you spend all your time sitting around, daydreaming about your beloved? No! You get up and do something about it. That is what Jesus Christ expects.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come now; let us leave. \u2014 John 14:31 Dreaming and planning in order to do a task well is a good thing; daydreaming when we should already be doing is wrong. In John 14, Jesus gives a wonderful message to his disciples: \u201cVery truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}