If God speaks to us through symbols in our dreams, how do we know what He means? Let’s look again to Joseph, the Old Testament master of symbolic dreams.
Genesis 40:8 (NIV)
Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God?”
Talk with God about your dream. Ask Him to show you what He means.
I write what I remember about a dream in my journal. I list different possibilities for interpretation. Almost always, when I talk it over with God, one possibility sparks a flash of insight.
Lord, show me what I need to learn from this dream.
I think that I should know my dreams,
but I’ll say, by Jesus’ beard,
none of them are as they seem
and some are downright weird.
I’ve dreamt about a road-trip hell
by camel, through the fifty states
with a dwarf who rang a bell
and a chimp on roller skates.
But that’s a dream that mirrors life
with some familiar factors,
’twas me before I met my wife;
yes, I was some disaster!
I told a pshrink once, felt the need,
and she asked if she could try my weed.
Proof once again, that a good wife tames the wild beast in her man.
Once we were out walking, and a neighbour said, loud enough to hear, “Well, there go Beauty and the Beast.”
I was really upset; how dare he call my wife a beast!