The Tubes Have Rolled Away

This morning I woke up from a comedic dream, laughing! In the dream I was in a meeting with a bunch of people I knew from the past, while I happened to be leaning up against a set of plastic drawers on rollers, the kind you can find in a college students room or that I use to store art and collaging supplies. Leaning up against the drawers were rolls and rolls of parchment scrolls covered over tubes like wrapping paper.

In the front of the room commanding all of the attention was a woman with big Texan style hair singing her tune. As I stood there slightly leaning up against the drawers, suddenly they started to roll away and the scrolls fell over onto me. I was sort of trapped, because if I moved they would have come crashing down making a huge spectacle.

Friends that were nearby laughed and we worked hard to contain ourselves and not breakout into a roar of laughter. Then a pastor-friend from the past came up from behind me as I explained what had happened. He smiled and said that he knew, everyone behind me saw it all take place. I joked and said, "The tubes are empty the drawers have rolled away," as in the tomb is empty, the stone is rolled away!

The dream reminded me of a painful time and place, yet the laughter was evidence that it truly had been cleared away. All of the accounts that had been tabulated on those scrolls and measured against me, had no power, because the tubes were rolled away, the neatly gift-wrapped scrolls of insults, the entrapment and those that judged from the sidelines.

It's amazing how God can take something so painfully devastating and bring resurrection out of it. He can even make it into a comedy! I see the evidence of this by the mere fact that I am friends with some of the very people that hurt me so deeply.

There was a day when the pain was taken and rolled into something new, like the laughter that woke me out of my sleep this morning. The pain was turned into incredible joy as I awoke from my slumber and into a new life of purpose.

I chose to lay down the offenses of the injustices that had fallen on me, recorded in those documents, because Christ took them all upon Himself and rose out of those confining tubes. The drawers lined with accusations were rolled away and with His resurrection expertise He used each detail to compile a magnificient collage that trumpets His message.