Don’t get me wrong, Daniel lived a great life, but his life was certainly not great like “celebrity great”. His greatness would probably be ignored by our standards today. His life was in many ways quite difficult. He was an exile for 70 years in a foreign land. His homeland lay in ruins and his people had been scattered by Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians.
Like all the heroes of the Bible, we admire Daniel because of his faith and faithfulness to God even though his immediate circumstances were not what he wanted them to be! Hebrews gives us other examples of faith—people like Abraham, Noah, Moses, and Rahab who believed God even though they often didn’t see the results of their prayers or faith-filled lives. Here’s what Hebrews 11:39 says, “These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.”
That something better was Christ Jesus. The heroes of faith looked forward to the day when Messiah would arrive, we look back and by faith await his second coming. The crucial question is . . . how will we live in the meantime?
Daniel lived a great life focused on God's plans and purposes. As a result he received insight into dreams and visions. Daniel saw what God saw even before it happened. I wonder how much more we could see, if we lived a little closer to the Lord through prayer and the study of scripture.
Join us this week as we take a look at what Daniel saw in the vision of the Seventy Weeks (Daniel 9).
See you at 10:15 AM at our new location (1300 Blue Ridge Road).
Like all the heroes of the Bible, we admire Daniel because of his faith and faithfulness to God even though his immediate circumstances were not what he wanted them to be! Hebrews gives us other examples of faith—people like Abraham, Noah, Moses, and Rahab who believed God even though they often didn’t see the results of their prayers or faith-filled lives. Here’s what Hebrews 11:39 says, “These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.”
That something better was Christ Jesus. The heroes of faith looked forward to the day when Messiah would arrive, we look back and by faith await his second coming. The crucial question is . . . how will we live in the meantime?
Daniel lived a great life focused on God's plans and purposes. As a result he received insight into dreams and visions. Daniel saw what God saw even before it happened. I wonder how much more we could see, if we lived a little closer to the Lord through prayer and the study of scripture.
Join us this week as we take a look at what Daniel saw in the vision of the Seventy Weeks (Daniel 9).
See you at 10:15 AM at our new location (1300 Blue Ridge Road).
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