So You Will Know

Daniel 2:28b-30 “Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind as you lay on your bed are these: 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.”
 
DANIEL has life-saving information. He could shout, “I’ve got it! I did it! I’ll tell you, King, what your dream is!” Instead, he remains humble to quickly indicate, “the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen.” Daniel declines to take credit for God’s revelation. God didn’t reveal the dream for Daniel’s needs, nor to glorify Daniel. God revealed what is going to happen, so the king, “may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.” Daniel knows this: God has chosen him to be his messenger to a specific person for a particular purpose.
    You know God has chosen you for the same reason, don’t you? As you confess, “I’m a Christian.” you do so not because you are wise but because the Triune God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who reveals salvation, has opened your mind to eternity. In response, you are to be God’s humble messenger: Romans 1:17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
    Just as Daniel’s physical life was saved through God’s revelation, your spiritual life is saved through the gospel’s revelation. And even more, you have received this knowledge, as did Daniel, to be heaven’s messenger to particular people who need to know.
    We’ve learned from Daniel that our physical and spiritual lives are formed for God’s purpose. Fear God. Gain wisdom. Act in knowledge. Glorify God’s grace. Be God’s messenger.
 
2 Corinthians 4:10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.