God’s love, which is stronger than death, is causing me to continue walking the path of the mission the Lord has given me (John 6:1–15). “At that very time some Pharisees came and said to Him, ‘Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill You.’ He replied, ‘Go tell that fox, “I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.” In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem! Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see Me again until you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord” (Luke 13:31–35). ...
Our God is the only true
God, and the true God is with us!
King
Nebuchadnezzar had a strange dream and was troubled to understand its meaning.
He
called for magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers to interpret the
dream for him.
The
astrologers said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever! Tell us
the dream,
and
we will interpret it for you." Interestingly, Nebuchadnezzar did not tell
them his dream
but
wanted them to reveal both the dream and its interpretation.
Why
did Nebuchadnezzar not disclose his dream to them?
Ultimately,
the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers told Nebuchadnezzar,
"What
the king asks is too difficult; no one can reveal it to the king except the
gods,
and
they do not live among humans" (Daniel 2:2-11).
When
I meditate on this passage, I believe that before God exalted Daniel in
Babylon,
He
first orchestrated a series of events: He caused King Nebuchadnezzar to have a
dream
and
made it so that the king did not disclose the dream.
Nebuchadnezzar
then demanded that all the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers,
and
astrologers reveal both the dream and its interpretation.
As a
result, they said, "No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and
such gods
do
not live among humans." The
"gods" they referred to were only God,
and
while they knew that no such gods lived among humans, God was with Daniel.
Thus,
God granted Daniel wisdom and power, and in response to his prayers,
revealed
the interpretation of the dream, that is, the mystery (vv. 11-28).
Therefore,
both King Nebuchadnezzar and all the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers,
and
astrologers came to realize that only Daniel’s God is the true God,
and
that the true God was with Daniel.
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