Do You have a Dream

Where is Zion? Is it actually a place that I can visit? Is it some place I can go to know where Jesus spent His boyhood? In the bible there are many listings for Zion, but unlike any other place no real definitive location is given. And so, depending who you talk to, Zion has very different meanings. To a Jew, Zion represents the Promised Land and their hope of returning to their beloved Palestine. To a Christian, Zion represents heaven: the land of milk and honey, where there will be no more tears and where our heavenly Father has a mansion made up with rooms for each of us. If we take Zion to mean heaven, or even the Promised Land, it seems there should be better terminology to describe such a place as Zion, which, according to some, translates in Hebrew as "parched place". Then again this makes sense considering that God's thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8) and that His sole purpose for picking His people was not because they were the best or the brightest but because they were. These people, not unlike my brethren and myself were just ordinary, everyday, run-of-the-mill people. And God created in them an extraordinary existence, an ability to do powerful things, if they let God do the doing. Not unlike my brethren and I. So Zion, while meaning a dry land also means that deep down this land was made of you and me because God will do extraordinary things in us and through us, that all may know He is God. He makes gold out of the desert sand, flowers out of the dung heap, and a saved soul out of something with no hope at all.