Quote for the Day
“…the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen…”
Today's Prayer
This week ask the Revealer of mysteries to draw closer to you. Pray that, in His time, you may see the future God has planned for you and your family, and that you will seek His wisdom as you see it unfold.
Daniel 2:29-35
Daniel 2:29-35 (NIV)29 “As you were lying there, O king, your mind turned to things to come, and the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen. 30 As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than other living men, but so that you, O king, may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.31 “You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
Message
What is the one thing we all want to know? The future! Everyone dreams of knowing what is going to happen in their life. Who will I marry? What will I become? How will I die? Well, some things we may not want to know!Nebuchadnezzar has a unique experience here. While the dream itself is certainly an important issue, as we will see in detail later, what is important to consider is that God was giving the king the rare privilege of seeing the future. God has given all mankind the ability to know the “final” future. We have been told that the future is one of fellowship with God or not. The ultimate future is one that God is very clear about.What is a very limited occurrence is when details of the future here on earth are given to an individual. This is the privilege that the king is allowed. Daniel tells him that the revealer of mysteries is about to show him what will happen. Maybe no baseball scores or stock prices, but some other important items, like what kingdoms will come after his on this earth. I believe one of the best reasons for God NOT to reveal the future to us individually, is that we truly do NOT have the capacity to deal with it. As we shall see later, this is true of Nebuchadnezzar. Without detailed knowledge it also does one more thing for us: it forces us to rely on God to be our future, and for us to allow the future to be planned by God and then lived by us. Not such a bad arrangement!
