a borrowed faith

The other night I had a dream about heaven than was very thought provoking..

I was outside and it was dark, and there was a red flash in the distance, it felt like everything was getting sucked up into this light. I knew that this meant that our time on earth was over and I was going to heaven. The person next to me was afraid of what was happening...
When I got there I had to look up my name and confirm my date of birth, but i realized that it wasnt my real date of birth but the date i accepted Christ as my savior...I was looking through the list as that suprised me and I saw people that I knew and saw babies that hadn't been born or died, their 'date of birth' was written in the book, meaning they were accepted into the kingdom of Christ....there were others around me that their 'date of birth' was much later than they had expected, because they thought that they were living for Christ for a long time but hadn't been until recently..that was a scarry thing for those that saw that because they realized that if they would have died during that time they wouldnt have been in heaven....
While I was there, I saw people that I used to know that all came up to me, people that I didnt expect to see there, they came up to me giving me hugs and in suprise I said "what are you doing here????" and they replied with their testamony...I realized that all these people I came into contact with there was some way which I was involved with leading them to the lord...It was so exciting to see all these people and there was hugging and suprise and amazement on how God worked it all out....
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Been really thinking about this dream it was so cool to me...
the part I have been thinking about the most is how many people believe they have a relationship with Jesus, but aren't living for the Lord...I have been thinking about how its so easy to say "I have done all this..." but in reality if we step back and look how long has it really been since we have been pursuing God? At what point do we realize that we 'were' walking with the Lord, and now we are not...we did go to church, but now its been years...5,10..20....I did pursue God for many years, i've just gotten busy....We can't rely on the past we cant depend on where we were with God but we should evaluate where we ARE.
I think about how I was raised in a christian home and how that created such an amazing base for my life, but I couldnt handle the things of this world if it was based on the relationship I had with God back in highschool.. and we can't handle life based on other peoples relationship with God as well. Sometimes we quote others and talk about God, but really how are we renewing our relationship with God on a regular basis for ourselves. Someone can study the whole bible and even have it memorized but never have a relationship with the Lord. When it comes down to it, when we stand before God, it will be us...not your family, not your friends, just you...are you borrowing others thoughts of God? what has he been teaching you lately? If you can't think of a time, are you waiting for Him to come to you or are you going to go to Him? Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.