0262. Daniel, a Man of Vision
Daniel, a Man of Vision
"And Daniel had understanding in all dreams and visions" (Dan_1:17).
Daniel was pre-eminently a man of a wonderful vision. He outclassed any wise man of Babylon in this; in fact he outclassed all the wise men and the king combined.
This "understanding of dreams" and this "seeing of visions" was the result of the wisdom that Daniel received from God. He did not receive it from men, neither was he taught it, but by the Spirit of God.
The soothsayers and the magicians and the astrologers of Babylon knew nothing of the things of God, neither could they know them, because they were not taught in the schools of men–they are spiritually discerned.
Great men are not always wise. There are those who have gone up the ladder of human knowledge, round by round, until they stand at the highest reach of human knowledge and of human wisdom–yet they know nothing of the things of God. They are ignorant as Hottentots of things Divine.
Why? Simply because things spiritual cannot be discerned by the eye that is psychical–"No man knoweth the things of God save the Spirit of God that is in him."
Daniel had a vision. He had a vision which looked on beyond the tottering thrones of Nebuchadnezzar and his grandson and Belshazzar, on past the thrones of Darius and Cyrus, on past the throne of Alexander the Great, on past the thrones of the Scipioes, on past the thrones of the ten-kingdomed empire which is yet to be.
Daniel in the visions by night beheld, and, lo, "One like the Son of Man came with clouds of Heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. And there was given Him dominion and glory and a Kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His Kingdom shall not be destroyed."
Daniel saw "a little stone without hands," falling down the mountain side and crushing to powder all the kingdoms of men. He saw until that little stone "became a great mountain and filled the whole earth" with its glory.
This is the supreme need of today. ‘Mid the turmoil and the strife, ‘mid the unrest and the upheavals of society; ‘mid the sweep of apostasy and arrogant pride; the man of today needs a vision.
The vision of coming things is the only balm for his wounds, the only safeguard for sobriety. Men need to know that under the shifting sands of the world’s dynasties, there is the Rock of Ages that stands secure. God gives us men with a Heavenly vision; God give us men who live, looking for the blessed hope; God give men prepared in heart and hand to reign with Christ a thousand years!
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR