Ever wanted to ‘reach for the moon’ with a dream, goal or huge answer to your prayers? God says, “Go ahead… reach for it.”

“Anticipointment” def: hopeful expectation turned upside down/sky-high hopes brought down to ground level

All right, so it may not be a legitimate word. I made it up. But I bet you could have used it at several points in your life.

Who hasn’t set their sights high…who hasn’t entertained big, bold and daring dreams… who hasn’t attempted to lasso the moon, only to have reality set in or someone with more clout knock the moon completely out of sight. It’s so much a part of life that if it happens too many times, we tend to give up. We sigh with resignation. Our shoulders slump. And our resolve grows to never allow that kind of disappointment to ambush us again.

So we lower our expectations. We make the bull’s eye too big to miss. We live and dream in dreary black and white until we’ve downsized our dream list so far that we’re absolutely certain to get whatever is on it. How understandable.

How pathetic.

Maybe the problem has been that your dreams and aspirations haven’t been big enough! Maybe you need to trade in your old black and white set for one with radiant color. Just maybe your dream list needs to be ‘up-sized’ and your bull’s eye needs to be made so small that you’ll only hit it if God does the aiming.

Take a careful look at dreams you’ve given up on. Look carefully to see if they have “Engineered By God” engraved on them. If they do, shrug off the ‘pointment’ part of that new word and concentrate again on the ‘antici’ part of it.

Eugene Peterson in “The Message” captures this attitude when talking about Abraham’s faith: “When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do.” (Romans 4:18) The MSG

Why not go looking for that moon again this week?