Dreams Indicate Character
1 Kings 3:5-15
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give you.…


Tell me your dreams, and I will read the riddle of your life. Tell me your prayers, and I will write the history of a soul. Tell me your askings, and I will tell you your gettings. Tell me what you seek, and I will tell you what you are. I do not wish to know your possessions — only your wants. I do not care to know what you have — only what you have not, and desire to have; not your attainments, but what you have not yet attained and follow after. That Which comes to you in your victories by day and your dreams by night, the ideal you set before you, the things which you approve as excellent, what you seek after and have given your heart to, these are the measure of the man. In a truer sense than Shakespeare meant, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." They have no price in the market, but they, and they alone, give worth and dignity to life.

(Hugh Black, M. A.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

WEB: In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask what I shall give you."




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