Verses: Daniel 2 : 24 - 45
My thoughts about the
verses:
Imagine the surprise on
the King’s face when Daniel not only tells him the dream, but also interprets
it. You know that Nebuchadnezzar was
worried about the dream. If he wasn’t he
would have never asked what the dream meant.
He worried that misfortune was going to befall him.
Have you ever had a
dream that seemed realistic? You are
faced with a dream that makes you wonder what is really happening. The fear rises up from the pits of your
stomach. Will this dream become a reality? Will I be faced with a situation that I cannot
handle? Sometimes we are even more
worried that the dream will not come true.
Either way we become worried over something that we have dreamed.
Many of us even seek out
advice. We wonder if someone can tell us
what our dream means. Have they
experienced the same kind of dream? We
wonder what happened when they had the dream.
We listen to others describing their dreams to see if we compare ours
with theirs. Our fear is so intense that
we are at a heightened awareness of the subtle things that happen to us.
Nebuchadnezzar even threatened
death of his sages because they could not tell him his dream. He felt if they couldn’t tell him the dream
they could not properly interpret it.
Then all of a sudden Daniel stepped forward and was able to do what the
King thought was impossible.
Now we need to look
closely at the dream. The dream was not
only important to Nebuchadnezzar but also to us. The interpretation of the dream revolves
around the kingdom of men and the kingdom of God. The different governments of the world will
tumble to the ground and the rulers will lose all their power. Yet, God’s kingdom will overcome all the obstacles
of the world. In the end the only true
ruler of the world will be God.
Let us look at this
carefully many people have thought that this dream established certain powers
that would rise and fall. At the end of
the last when the last one falls the end of the world will occur. Yet, we are also told that we will not know
the time or the day.
I propose something a
little different. Something that is
different that the norm. The Kingdom of
God is already here. Jesus was the
mountain that came and conquered the world.
The last ruler of the Earth was destroyed by God’s presence. I am not referring to the typical rulers that
we think of. I am talking about the sin
that has ruled the people of the world.
Jesus was able to crumble the power which was sin. As the sin was destroyed by Jesus’s death the
entire dominion of sin in our life was destroyed.
In the end we know that
Jesus will return and claim victory once more.
At that moment the mountain will be the only thing of power on the
Earth. True we know that we are
challenged by many obstacles in this would.
We know that Satan will do anything to feel us with self-doubt. Yet with this being said when we lean on
Jesus our burdens are lighter. Sin
cannot destroy us because our rock of salvation has smashed the sin in our
life. Even though we will sin after that
moment it still doesn’t control our life.
The fact is that the rock that crushed the sin in our life lives within
us. Jesus protects us from the harms that
sin produces.
Prayer:
Dear God thank you for
your love. Thank you for the power that
you have over sin. Help us accept the love
that you have for us. Help us overcome
the temptations that we face. In the
name of the Savior and Foundation of Life we pray. Amen
Questions:
Have you accepted God’s gift of grace? Are you clinging onto the desires of the
world? Do you put all of your hope in
the rulers of the world? Is today the
day that you ask God into your life? Do
you desire God to crush the sins that are in our life? Is today the day that we stand behind the
mountain which is Jesus’s power on this Earth?
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