When something happens to us that God clearly orchestrated, it serves to deepen our faith and trust in Him. God wants to be intimately involved in our lives, and He likes to make things happen in ways that only He can. It shows His character, His love, and His power.
In the spring of 2014, a few months before I was saved, I dreamed I was in a one-room school building. I was sitting in the back of the room with the door opened behind me. It was sunny, hot and dusty.
A woman was teaching class. I understood that the class was going to be leaving soon, so I scrambled to write down what the teacher was telling us before our time was up. The only thing I remember writing was what sounded like “cum illuminous tetris.” I wasn’t sure if it was the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence. With that, everyone in the room got up quickly to leave. The dream ended.
This so baffled me after I woke up that I wrote down the phrase and stared at it, wondering what it could possibly mean, and why were they the only words I remembered writing? And why did the class get up so fast to leave? (This wouldn’t be the first time I’d feel a sense of urgency in a dream.)
I asked friends what they thought the words meant. The only suggestion I got was that it might have something to do with a popular computer game. I thought about that, but it didn’t make sense. I felt this was something important, because the teacher had walked past the other students and was directly in front of me when she spoke. So I spent time online looking through languages I knew nothing about to see what I could find.
I knew the first word was Latin, and the second word seemed fairly obvious, but the last one was a stinker. At one point I dropped the “S” from it, trying to make it work that way. But then I came up with a combination of Latin and maybe a coin from the country of Georgia, and things when downhill pretty fast. It shouldn’t be that much of a struggle.
After three years of occasionally thinking about this dream, it resurfaced again one day as I was reading about the Transfiguration of Jesus (Mark 9:2-9). I felt an overwhelming urge to look into it again.
It occurred to me that maybe there were more words said by the teacher than what I heard, so I divided the last word and typed everything into a translator to see what would happen. It worked! What I heard in the dream as a phrase with three words, made sense only when I typed it out as having four. I was shocked.
I didn’t notice that the teacher had an accent. I might never have gotten it at all if she’d spoken the words like they are in the translator below. Click the speaker icon in the phrase box in the link to listen:
https://translate.google.com/#la/en/cum%20illuminos%20te%20tres
I have no idea if that translation is even accurate, but it doesn’t matter. The message given was going to be received, eventually, and God knew exactly what I’d find, when I’d find it, and where. I didn’t realize what the phrase meant until I was saved, when I learned a lot more, and when I was able to understand it. It made it all the more powerful.
I was told what was to happen, in a dream, in a language I don’t know, before I surrendered my life to the Lord, and when I still knew almost nothing about the Bible. Only God can do something that spectacular.
Now I know: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit–The Three. It’s God who illuminates us, so we can shine His light, for others, and for His glory.
Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever. (Daniel 12:3)
Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (Matthew 13:43)
He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. (Matthew 17:2)
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