In Daniel 2:31-35, Daniel describes Nebuchadnezzar's dream to him. In the dream, the king saw a vast, gigantic, and extraordinary statue of various substances standing before him. It was a massive, colossal, and awesome image with a head made of gold. Its chest and arms are silver, and its belly and thighs are bronze. Its legs were made of iron, and its feet were composed of iron and clay.
As
the king continued staring at the humongous statue, a stone not made by hand
struck it at its feet of iron and clay, crumbling it. The iron, the clay, the
bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed all at once. Becoming like chaff
and dust, they were blown away by wind until no trace could be found.
Meanwhile, the stone that struck it grew into a massive mountain that covered
the whole earth. The enormous statue of different elements was only a subplot.
This God-given dream emphasized the mysterious stone of unidentified origin,
which has become the origin of a worldwide indomitable kingdom.
Let
us activate our sanctified imagination and try to envisage what the awestruck
Nebuchadnezzar must have felt as Daniel narrated the secret thoughts of his
mind to him. What baffled him must have been, "How could this man possibly
know what was in my mind? How could he tell me exactly what was in my dream?"
However, we know Daniel was just the instrument. The true revealer of the dream
was God.
God
sees our hearts and reads our minds like an open book. Not a single thing we do
or a single thought we think escapes his notice, whether sleeping or waking.
What do we think of most of the time? Hebrews 4:13 tells us, "And there is
no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the
eyes of Him with whom we have to do." And as 2 Corinthians 10:5 urges us,
let us take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
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