The world has a way of crushing your dreams …

All of us dream some kind of dreams for our lives, some greater than others.

But the world sometimes has a cruel, ugly way of crushing our dreams.

For Jon Krakauer (pictured above), his big dream was to successfully scale Mt. Everest, something he accomplished in May of 1996. But in the midst of realizing his dream, disaster would strike his team on their descent, resulting in a dozen men losing their lives. For that, his expedition became famous (or, infamous, as it were). The actual ascent became lost in tragedy. Nevertheless, he recalls achieving his grand dream in the first pages of his bestselling book, “Into Thin Air”:

“Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet. I understood on some dim, detached level that the sweep of earth beneath my feet was a spectacular sight. I’d been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many months. But now that I was finally here, actually standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn’t summon the energy to care … I snapped four quick photos, then turned and headed down. My watch read 1:17 p.m. All told, I’d spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world.”

The world has a way of crushing our dreams.

I imagine the followers of Jesus felt like their dreams had been brutally crushed on that Saturday following Jesus’ crucifixion. Most had walked away from their previous lives to pursue a new dream all bound up in following their leader.

He now laid dead in a grave.

Their dreams were crushed.

What were they to do now?

For these first disciples, the answer was to wait just one more day, then their dreams would be surpassed beyond any stretch of their imaginations.

Waiting on the Lord is still good advice for those of us who follow the risen Lord today …

“Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen,” Ephesians 3:20-21.

“And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns,” Philippians 1:6.

Just be patient, Jesus isn’t done, and He’s coming back!

Scotty