Dream: “The Marred Life”

Wednesday, 03/18/26 at 13:32
LM

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Hello, everybody. Welcome. God bless you.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I want to share what the Lord taught me just two days ago. What I’m going to share with you—possibly you already knew this. Praise God if you did, but I didn’t. So this message is for those who did not either.

I want to show you what the Lord showed me. This is something He showed me through a dream He gave me back on February 5th, 2023—over three years ago. He gave me this dream, and now I’m understanding the full message of what He was speaking to me.

This dream has been coming back to my mind for a few weeks now, and it came back again two days ago. I said, “Lord, I think You want to say something to me about this dream because it keeps coming to my memory.”

So I went and looked for my dream notebook—my first one. At that time, I had only been saved maybe a year and a half or two years. I went back to read it, and at first I didn’t think I had missed anything. But I felt like the Lord said, “Dig deeper.”

So I dug deeper into His Word, and this is what I’m going to share with you.

In this dream, again from February 5th, 2023, I was inside a mall, watching everything from a distance. There was a store called The Marred Life, and it was drawing a lot of people in. There was a long line, and everyone in line looked normal—just like we do.

The store had music, lights, and I remember hearing the sound of money. Even from a distance, I could hear it. It was attracting many people, and I watched as they went in.

Then the scene changed. I was now standing in front of the store, watching people come out. As they came out, they didn’t look human.

There were gashes on their faces. Their clothing was dark and dirty. Their hair, their skin—everything about them looked wrong. I knew they were human, but they did not look human.

When I woke up from this dream, I realized I didn’t even know what “marred” meant. I don’t have a big vocabulary, so I had to look it up.

When I did, I found that “marred” means damaged, spoiled, ruined, destroyed, corrupted, and defiled.

Later, when I revisited this dream, it was like a refresher. I also saw that the word “marred” appears in the Bible, including in the book of Jeremiah, where God speaks about Judah and Jerusalem being like something ruined—good for nothing.

Back then, I thought I understood the dream. I believed it was about sin and how the world lures us—how, when we partake in it, this is what we look like to God. Not human, but defiled, disfigured, damaged, ruined, destroyed.

That’s what I thought the message was.

But when I searched the word “marred” again in the Bible, I came across Isaiah 52:14:

“Just as many were astonished at you, so His visage was marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men.”

I already knew this verse. I knew how Jesus did not look human after what was done to Him. But this is where it clicked—where the Lord opened my understanding.

What Jesus looked like on the cross—marred, disfigured—that is a picture of what humanity looks like in its fallen, sinful state.

That is what we look like.

I was in amazement when it clicked.

What Jesus looked like on that cross is what we look like to God—corrupted and destroyed.

But Romans 5:8 says:
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been walking with the Lord. It doesn’t matter how well you know these verses—whether it’s 40 years, 20 years, or 10 years.

What He did on the cross should never, ever become something familiar to us.

It should never be something we casually say, “Oh yeah, I know that—He died for my sins.”

No. It should always move us to love Him more and to be deeply grateful for what He did.

We can never repay Him for what He did for us. Never.

All we can do is give Him our hearts, our lives, our love—our worship, our adoration, our time, our thoughts, and our desires—holding nothing back.

It should never become ordinary. Ever.

2 Corinthians 5:21 says:
“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

Sometimes, I think we need a true revelation of who we are—and who He is.

When we compare ourselves to others, that’s not a true comparison. But when we look at ourselves and then look at Him, it should bring us to humility.

We are but specks of dust. He doesn’t need us—He desires us—but He doesn’t need us. We are the ones who need Him.

We are the ones who need Him.

Isaiah 53:5 says:
“But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.”

That first part—“He was wounded for our transgressions”—when I looked deeper, it connects again to being marred: damaged, defiled, corrupted, spoiled.

And “transgressions” means a willful, deliberate rebellion against God.

In the dream, the people were willingly standing in line to enter that store. No one forced them. No one held them there.

It was a choice.

And that brought the whole dream together for me.

It was like a revelation—like everything finally made sense. I understood more deeply what Jesus looked like on that cross.

And even though that is what we look like before God in our sin, He still loves us.

He loves us more than we will ever fully understand—on this side of life, and maybe even in eternity.

I don’t know.

Stay faithful to Him. Stay faithful to Him.