Why I do not believe in Dream Boards - Bible Talk

[jennifer_bloom]

For those of you who do not know, a dream board is a visual or textual collection of things you want in your ideal life, it’s created to motivate you to work at your goals and to remember you have a purpose when you face setback that makes you weary or temptation that makes you question your purpose in life and whether your goals are worthwhile. Here are the reasons I do not support a dream board

1. You might not know what you are asking for. I remember liking a guy who rejected me and learning later he was a psychopath. I remember getting rejected by another guy and learning 6 years later he was a liar and I remember chasing another guy very very hard, only to learn his personality was fake and he had almost no good qualities, a dream board does not know the facts, so better to let God tell you want you want, instead of you telling God what you want.

2. Your goals might change along the way. I remember wanting to marry a specific person, wanting to own a bunch of pets, and wanting to be friends with successful people but I later learned a lot of the rich people I knew were snobs, the guy I liked might not be pure in heart, and pets would poop and scratch and smell and get sick and require a lot of maintenance work so that made those three goals not a part of my life.

3. Having role models is more effective than having lifestyle photo models, with a human role model, you can learn wisdom, social skills, knowledge, professional skills, practical skills, fitness skills, communication skills, philanthropy skills, coping skills, optimism skills and organization skills but with a lifestyle photo, you will only learn what you want, now what you have to do to get it, and you may lose many useful experiences and connections in your quest for success because you started with things and not with people.

[ScotishLegend]

Thank you for sharing.

[LemiaOfChampions]

Thank you for sharing

[DJB72]

"For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry."
Habakkuk 2:3 NKJV

All a dream board is is a modern version of what Habakkuk is talking about here. Where it says God will give us the desires of our heart, the Truth is that by focusing on the Lord we allow Him to get our dreams to align with His. So if we follow the instruction Habakkuk gives here and create a dream board (or a Vision Board more accurately) then it helps us focus on what God is doing in us and for us.

I've used Vision Boards for years to help me keep my focus on Christ. As a human, and especially as a man, I'm visually stimulated. Seeing an image of something helps me maintain my focus on it. I have a cross I always place where I can see it during my quiet time. I have pictures of things from over the years I've used to keep my visions fresh, including me holding a baby while I was praying about becoming a father - the very first vision God gave me when I was 16 that I kept praying for for exactly 30 years before he was born - and more recently of me learning to walk again. A dream I have had since I was in my 20s is to become a pilot. I have a picture on my Vision Board of the plane I felt God tell me to pray for. (There are places here in Africa only accessible by plane that I've felt for several years I am supposed to go to. This isn't a frivolous dream)

So done right, the Bible actually encourages us to have a Dream Board. After all, as Bruce Wilkinson said, the Lord is a Dream Giver

[Marhaban-1]

I believe that your life is already set out before you are born

[Jlegacy]

To answer you, YES!

[zagor]

Sounds like something teenage girls do.

[jimmy2]

Is that like a Ouija board

[jennifer_bloom]

Not it’s a collage of all the things you want in life, you put it together to look at.