Building a Home on Someone Else's Property
Analogy★★★★Fantasizing is like building a home on somebody else’s property. I’ve actually heard of stories of this. I’ve heard of a few stories of some Seventh-day Adventists. They got excited about moving to the country, doing an outpost center, and having a compound where a bunch of us will live.
I’ve heard of situations where one person owns the property and they say, ‘Hey, this family come, this family come, you guys build the homes, we’ll make gardens, I got the property, you have the resources to build the homes and we’ll have a nice, happy, conservative Adventist commune together.’ And I’ve heard of situations where the property owner and the people who came got in doctrinal or relational differences. And you know what the property owner said? ‘Get off of my property.’ They said, ‘Well that’s my home,’ and I’m issuing restraining order, bye bye.
Everything invested in that property, gone. Was it wise to build on somebody else’s property? No, it wasn’t wise. Even with brethren, just don’t do that, friends.
It’s just, you think, ‘Oh, among Seventh-day Adventists we could trust it.’ Just, we’re still humans. Just don’t make that move. But that’s what we do when we’re fantasizing.
We’re investing all this emotion and all this time and energy and a piece of our heart in shifting sand that could just be swept away like that because it’s not real and when reality comes it could just take it all away.
Arruda, Gabriel, “Fantasies” (AudioVerse teaching 43276).
The point
The preacher compares fantasizing to building a home on someone else's property, illustrating how investing emotions in fantasies leads to loss when reality hits.