At the Interpreter's House

// Today I would like to share a scene of a dream that has reached me. I say it has reached me for this dream wasnt born in my sleep, but is a fruit of John Bunyan's pilgrimages that many know and others have heard about.
// The book that came to be from Bunyan's dream and pilgrimages has many and many times been an inspiration and a key to understand my own dreams and my own pilgrimage. I do not wish to speak much, but rather to allow him speak and describe of a scene where Christian receives a word from the Interpreter.
// This is but one of seven visions that the interpreter shares to Christian to enlighten his path and hopefully by receiving this vision it may enlighten our own. So here I leave you with the company of the words of John Bunyan:

The Grace of Christ Conquers the Assailed Heart
Then I saw in my dream that the Interpreter took Christian

by the hand, and led him to a place where there was a fire
burning against a wall. In front of this fireplace was a man
continually casting buckets of water on the fire in an effort to
extinguish it. Nevertheless, the fire continued to burn higher
and hotter.

CHRISTIAN: What does this mean?

INTERPRETER: This fire is the work of grace that has been
ignited in the heart. He who casts water upon it, so as to
extinguish this blaze, is the Devil. Even so, in that you see the
fire burn higher and hotter, let me now show you the reason for
this mystery.

So Interpreter took Christian behind the wall and the
fireplace; there the pilgrim saw a Man with a container in his
hand, from which he cast oil upon the fire, though secretly.[1]
Then said Christian, “What does this mean?” Hence
Interpreter replied, “This is Christ, who continually, with the oil
of his grace, maintains the work already begun in the heart; by
this means, notwithstanding what the Devil attempts to do, the
souls of his people still prove to be gracious.[2] And in that you
saw that the Man stood behind the wall to maintain the fire, this
is to teach you that it is hard for those who are tempted to
understand how this work of grace is upheld in the soul.”


[1] Zech. 4:11-14.
[2] II Cor. 12:9.

// I hope this small message reaches you as it has reached me. I am inclined to dismiss the reader with naught but these words: it is He who ignites the fire, it is He who sustains us pilgrims with oil that we cannot see. Let us not relent our intent to be a pilgrim for things that we see, but let us be driven by the strenght that we do not see.