Be Still And Know

Daniel 2.23 NLT “I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors, for you have given me wisdom and strength. You have told me what we asked of you and revealed to us what the king demanded.” Daniel had been given what looks to me like an impossible job. Not only did he have to tell King Nebuchadnezzar the interpretation of his dream, but he had also been told to inform the King what he had dreamt about in the first place! The King’s highly trained wise men complained, not unreasonably, that the job was impossible, and they were threatened with death as a result. But Daniel knew that he was in touch with the source of all wisdom, God himself. And so he prayed. You wouldn’t blame Daniel if he had prayed a desperate prayer screaming at God to do the impossible and save him from certain death. But he didn’t. His prayer was one of worship and adoration. He acknowledged that God was the source of all wisdom and power and that, ultimately, everything that happened in the world was in the Lord’s hands. He was, theref