IN THE MIDST OF DIFFICULTY—HAVE YOU HEARD THE MOST IMPORTANT WORDS
As we began digging into chapters 10 – 12, we observed Daniel’s burden, we observed Daniel bearing the cost of close involvement with God and His Word.
In today’s text, as we pick up at verse 9, the scene moves from Daniel seeing a vision, to one of hearing, of being touched, and of being addressed.
In hearing… the man of clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz. 6 His body also was like beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches. His arms and his feet were like burnished bronze…Daniel hears a voice that…was like the voice of a multitude… 9 Yet I heard the voice of his words. When I heard the voice of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.
We get of glimpse of just how connected our earthly realm is with the heavenly. Daniel’s prayers have heard and answered.
And then Daniel, after actually speaking with the man, is overwhelmed and loses his breath.
He is once again touched. He is strengthened. He is told again that he is greatly beloved.
Imagine, in the midst of difficulty being told you are beloved. Daniel, troubled over the future was told this by a messenger from God some twenty-six centuries ago, that he was beloved by God. Would you like to hear from God that you are beloved by him?
Perhaps you have—and from more than a messenger—but from God himself.
In John 3:16 we read: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
I wonder if we realize these words came off the lips of Jesus.
Jesus stands, ready to touch your heart and say to you, you are greatly beloved.
There are times—whether you are a believer in Jesus or not—where you find the way difficult; you are faced with apparently unanswerable questions and insoluble difficulties.
The difference is quite simply, have you heard from God that you are beloved?
If you have not, would you like to?