Get inspired if you need a new perspective. By Waldemar Laufersweiler
On the night of February 20/21, I had an intense experience in a dream:
I found myself in church premises that reminded me of my younger years. I felt a strong nostalgia for my earlier years that almost overwhelmed me. I felt this longing like a weight on my chest and I struggled for breath.
Nearby stood a person close to me with whom I had a relationship of trust. I wanted to go to her to pour my heart out to her about my ageing and that the good times in my life were over once and for all.
I was about to start walking when suddenly something like a brightly lit corridor opened up to the sky, through which I could see the Celestial City in the distance. I was overwhelmed by unprecedented joy and unspeakable peace. What was particularly impressive, however, was that I suddenly felt a freedom that is difficult to put into words.
To the right and left of the corridor it was pitch black. This darkness seemed to want to reach out and suck me in. I realized that these were the difficulties and temptations of the end times that were still to come. I quickly realized that I would only get through the bright corridor safely if I looked ahead and didn’t concern myself with the darkness.
Now I looked around and searched for the burden of melancholy that had been weighing me down. I looked for what I had lost in this life and realized that all that and all the difficulties to come faded into insignificance. They no longer had any power or meaning.
At that moment, I woke up. But the joy, the peace and especially the freedom from the dream lingered for a while.
The following day, my wife and I went for a walk on a mountain plateau with a wonderful view in ideal, friendly and sunny weather. I told her about my dream and tried to find the right words to express what I felt in the dream and afterwards. Finally I said: “I feel like I’m in prison here in this beautiful nature with the ideal weather compared to the dream.”
God is good and has given me a brief taste of heaven. I can’t believe what God has in store for his overcomer children.
The following Bible passage, which is currently with me, has now taken on a whole new quality:
“Do not think about what used to be, do not dwell on what is past! See, I am working new things! It is already growing up. Do you not notice it? I am clearing a path through the desert, creating streams in the wasteland.” (Isaiah 43:18-19)
May this testimony encourage us all to look ahead. God is already working new things in all his people.
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