Ears of Corn

May 3, 2004

Personal Narrations

Joel Akin

Calgary, Alberta

God and I were talking about the recent ears of corn dream last night.

The corn was buried on a steep hill made of ice and snow. I saw a woman, her head covered by a shawl, dressed in heavy clothing and she was pushing aside ice and snow. It took me great effort to reach her as I kept sliding downhill. The ears of corn that she uncovered looked hard and unpalatable. She offered some to me and said, "Come and eat. It is good for you!" I found myself looking at it with skepticism. To the left of the woman digging for corn there was a huge library. It was on flat ground and the sidewalks around it were carefully swept and cleared and free of obstacles.

 I didn't fully understand all those symbols at first.

 As I prayed God began to show me the woman represented wisdom and the knowledge she offers has to be searched for. It is not easily discovered, does not appear, with outward appearances, to be tasty or sweet but as Wisdom points out it is good for you. In addition wisdom is not easily reached. One must overcome their own weaknesses. They must struggle to reach her. For their are many obstacles in even finding her. But the fruit she offers does not come with outward beauty and ones natural inclination is to walk away.

The library represents the wisdom and knowledge of this world including the churches wisdom. Often they are found side-by-side. One comes with comfort and ease and is the wisdom found in this world. The path it offers is easy and takes no effort to find.

In another dream from yesterday I was given a cup of living water. I took a swig of it and for whatever reason could not drink it all and backwashed some of it. But the small amount I swallowed had me wanting to tell others they also could drink from this cup. In this case I offered some to my parents. Mom appeared interested but would not drink and then my dad drank but grew sick and died in moments.

I realized later last night it was prophetic of truth. The Christian church, and myself at the moment of that dream, thought that we are ready for the real truth, the real Christ, the real living water. But we are not. Tradition truly has replaced the living Christ. The real truth is frightening, scary, comes with too much uncertainty but only if we have grown comfortable where we are. We like things that fit into a box. With God He is outside the box and if we walk with Him so must we be. That is why there are spirits of conformity to keep us from seeing those truths.

Finally in the dream from this morning I was in the Philippines. This was a symbolic dream. I was in a school and there were a lot of students, many of them young and diseased. They had a woman teacher over them and she kept putting me off when I would ask for her help. Seems she was teaching a large bible class and had to get ready for it and had no time for me.

The main core of this dream seemed to be someone had stolen all my shoes. Tennis shoes, fancy shoes, work boots, beach wear and so on. I finally confronted this very large Filipino man. He was as large or larger then me and I suspected he knew where they were. We were sitting in what appeared to be a closet though there was plenty of light to see by. Sitting to his right was a small boy and this man was sprawled out in great arrogance. I demanded to know where my shoes were. He threatened me or acted like he was going to do me physical harm and I looked him right in the eye and said "Give it your best shot..." A look of fear came into his eyes.

What is strange about this conversation is though these were the thoughts passing between us neither of us was saying a word outloud.

Finally I said, "If you don't give me my shoes I will go to that woman and I will stop the service and demand that she find me my shoes.

The first few moments this was a strange dream until I realized something profound. The shoes speak of the words of Paul having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

God is preparing me for the gospel but Satan has stolen my ability to minister.

I can't express how profound this dream is. God showed so many things from this dream. First the woman represents the church. God is saying if Satan will not release what belongs to me then God will send me directly to the church to wake her up. That is the last thing Satan wants. Yet if he does release that may happen anyway. I think what excites me is the courage I saw in the dream. Now I've always been one to submit. Quiet, reserved, don't fight the status quo or speak out of turn or do anything that might offend. And why so many shoes? Because I believe God is telling me I'm going to travel again and not be stuck in this closet which represents a place where you put your outdoor clothing on. God wants me to have my traveling shoes, working shoes, ministry shoes and holiday beach ware.

So three dreams in the past few days. First the search for wisdom, the truth found in Christ, and confronting Satan for the things he has stolen. Each speaks of change and those changes are good.