Dream : Church Unprepared for Harvest

April 8, 2016 (early morning

I had a dream early this morning about my daughter Christina and her husband Dan. (Important Note: they were only symbolic of the household of faith, the family of God). I dreamt that they came home from a party where they had been most of the night - they got home 1 hour before they needed to leave for work. I was enraged and began to vent and rant to them about the foolishness of their actions; about how they knew they had to get to work the next day and now they were only going to get 1 hour sleep!  I pointed out how they would not be able to stay awake and work efficiently. I went on to tell them about how they had gotten caught up visiting with friends and partying - and had not noticed the lateness of the hour. After I had finished my rant, I was still upset and went to my room and sat down on my bed, when a sister in the Lord, who I was close to, came and sat next to me. She said "I understand how you feel and where you're coming from" - she agreed with me. I said: "I just wish they could remove a brick from the Holy City's wall and take a peek inside and watch the activities taking place within those walls right now, behind the veil... they would use their time more wisely. This verse in Romans came to mind:

Romans 13:11-14... And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake † out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.  12 The night is far spent, † the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.

I feel this is the church's mentality as a whole, more of a social attitude: eating, drinking marrying and giving in marriage, and not realizing the lateness of the hour. We, as the body of Christ, have not prepared spiritually for the Lord's work - His Harvest, which is ripe and ready to gather.  Where are his laborers?  I am also reminded of the 10 Virgins: 5 were ready with oil and 5 were only along for the social benefits till it was too late for them to prepare - the approach of the bridegroom had sounded!