MIDWEEK MEDITATION

“At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. 2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. 4 But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.”
“As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.”

              Daniel 12:1-4; 13

Daniel didn’t simply survive, he thrived.

The visions he received and the challenges he faced, all of it led him to his knees and to his God. At the end of it all, he was told to go on his way and live his life with the confidence that God is in control. 

Daniel’s vision of the end is as relevant for God’s people today as it was to the exiled prophet in his own time. When we see the end as God has written it, we are changed by it. It challenges our priorities and perceptions. And perhaps most stunning of all, the book of Daniel ends, not with a call to act, but a call to rest. 

There is a rest awaiting God’s people. You can experience it today. Will you enter into that rest? There is more for you than simply surviving. Today, you can thrive.