Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Daniel 2:25-30
Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste and said thus to him: “I have found among the exiles from Judah a man who will make known to the king the interpretation.” The king declared to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its interpretation?” Daniel answered the king and said, “No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery that the king has asked, but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these: To you, O king, as you lay in bed came thoughts of what would be after this, and he who reveals mysteries made known to you what is to be. But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind. (ESV)
by Jerry Johnson
In this passage I find a wonderful expression, “that you may know the thoughts of your heart” (v. 30, NKJV). Daniel was telling Nebuchadnezzar that God revealed the contents of his dream to the prophet in order to show the king the desperate state of his depravity. In this context people needed to understand the God of Israel was supreme in comparison to pagan gods. Today divine revelation contained in Scripture confirms Jesus Christ is the answer to the heart disease known as sin. Those who do not have Christ are baffled by this because they cannot comprehend the true nature of sin.
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Daily Bible Meditations are taken from The Helping Hand,a Sabbath School student quarterly for youth and adults. Copyright © 2010, Seventh Day Baptist Board of Christian Education, Inc.
Scripture quotations marked "ESV" are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.

