Dream: Terrorists can strike anytime, anywhere, anyone, using
anything; destroying the security of civilization. If we trust in the Lord, the peace that brings will counteract
the fear the terrorists seek to instill.
Sterling D. Allan
Copyright © 2001 Greater Things
Oct. 11, 2001
I had a warning dream last night that was so real I thought I was awake.
In the dream, I was documenting and publishing a warning about a particular safety product that was hot on the market at the time but which turned out to be purposely tainted with botulism. I had obtained a sample of the product and was going to have the fact of its contamination confirmed privately in a laboratory. I did not trust turning it over to the FBI because of the corruption in the government. I wanted to make sure of the results and know that I wasn't being lied to. But the assurance was not for my sake but for the sake of those I would be warning, who would want some kind of scientific verification. The way I found out about the chimera was that a messenger of God had told me. Whether it was an angel or a trusted servant of God I do not recall, other than that I personally had no reason to question the fact.
I awoke from the dream with full alertness, even though I'd only had four hours of sleep, and felt urged to present the concept that this dream contains.
As I pondered on the dream, I realized that one of the primary components of terrorism is that those things that we used to be able to trust can potentially end up being turned into tools of our destruction. What is unnerving about it is that we don't know when it will happen or what vehicles of delivery will be used. It could happen at school, at work, at home, in the mall, on the bus, on the highway, in the cafe, while getting a drink from the public drinking fountain. All of these formerly safe havens now have a large question mark placed about them -- the possibility of sabotage lurks in nearly every corner of our lives. What was once mundane routine becomes the subject of scrutiny as to any array of possible attacks.
The next terrorist campaign doesn't need to be worse than the last one to further catch people's attention and heighten their fear. In fact, at this point, a relatively much smaller act such as the poisoning of an elementary school's water in some remote town, could have as much of a devastating effect upon the sense of safety as an act as horrific as the flying of jetliners into the tallest buildings in New York.
However, rather than making us more paranoid and lest trusting, the message of the dream to me is that if we place our trust in God, then we don't need to become paranoid, for we will know who to trust and who not to trust because of the quiet and peaceful whisperings of the Lord through our conscience when no danger exists, or because of the feeling of warning in our souls, if something is dangerous.
While others might shirk from getting on an airplane, we can walk aboard without fear if the peace in our hearts assures us it is okay. If something does happen to go awry, it will have been for some foreordained purpose for which we will thank the Lord, as we would a loving parent who knows what is best for his or her child.
By placing such trust in God, the terrorist loses his power. Without such trust in God, the only One we can fully trust, then the terrorist can gain tremendous power to completely alter our society and abolish the security we once enjoyed.
Without such trust, something as simple as a sandwich prepared by my wife could become a horror to me, not that she would purposely taint my food, but one of the ingredients she used could have been poisoned by someone else.
But with that trust in God, the peace in our heart tells us whether or not the sandwich is okay. If the peace is immediately replaced by a sense of warning, then we throw the sandwich away and discern which ingredient was bad, get rid of it (or better yet, have it tested if we feel strongly enough about it, to warn others) and then be on our peaceful way, all the while having love in our hearts for all mankind, including the ones who wish our harm, praying in our hearts that God's love will somehow penetrate their hearts and heal their hate or misdirected zeal.
Otherwise, everything we once trusted becomes our potential enemy, and our society is paralyzed by fear.
There is no reason we have to go that route, for God loves all of us, and will lovingly guide everyone last one of us who turns to him(&her). [Don't take my word for that, but run it by your soul with trust in God.]
Sincerely,
Sterling D. Allan
