The Importance of “We”
Sometimes it just has to be “me.” At least that’s the way “I” feel about it. It has to be “me” that gets the special word from God. “Me” that gets to speak for God. “Me” that gets the “attaboy.”
But in Daniel 2:23, “we” becomes more important than “me.” Daniel says “You have told me what we asked of you and revealed to us what the king demanded.” And what was this all about? King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream and asked his wise men to tell him the dream and interpret it. It’s hard enough to interpret a dream but even harder to find out what the dream was in the first place and then interpret it. The wise men couldn’t do it and they were going to be killed for their failure to do so.
When Daniel finds out he is to be killed along with his friends, he goes to them—Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah—and “urged them to ask the God of heaven to show them his mercy by telling them the secret, so they would not be executed along with the other wise men of Babylon.” (verse18) He didn’t have to be the one that God would speak to. He knew that God was with each of them and he would be happy to have God speak to any of them.
The “we” in this section of scripture is significant. How much the “we” is needed in the church today. “I” don’t have to be the one God speaks to with a special word but “we” need a word from God. Yes, it is great to be used by God in a special way to touch others but it is also great when the touch comes from someone else as well. We are in this together. The important thing is that the touch of God comes.
Daniel asked his friends to pray that God would speak to any one of them. I pray that God will speak to any one of us today and that the message received will be shared and encourage, provoke, stimulate, and bring “us” to a closer relationship with God and a renewed desire to speak for God, work for God, and rest in God in all we do.
Sometimes it just has to be “me.” At least that’s the way “I” feel about it. It has to be “me” that gets the special word from God. “Me” that gets to speak for God. “Me” that gets the “attaboy.”
But in Daniel 2:23, “we” becomes more important than “me.” Daniel says “You have told me what we asked of you and revealed to us what the king demanded.” And what was this all about? King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream and asked his wise men to tell him the dream and interpret it. It’s hard enough to interpret a dream but even harder to find out what the dream was in the first place and then interpret it. The wise men couldn’t do it and they were going to be killed for their failure to do so.
When Daniel finds out he is to be killed along with his friends, he goes to them—Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah—and “urged them to ask the God of heaven to show them his mercy by telling them the secret, so they would not be executed along with the other wise men of Babylon.” (verse18) He didn’t have to be the one that God would speak to. He knew that God was with each of them and he would be happy to have God speak to any of them.
The “we” in this section of scripture is significant. How much the “we” is needed in the church today. “I” don’t have to be the one God speaks to with a special word but “we” need a word from God. Yes, it is great to be used by God in a special way to touch others but it is also great when the touch comes from someone else as well. We are in this together. The important thing is that the touch of God comes.
Daniel asked his friends to pray that God would speak to any one of them. I pray that God will speak to any one of us today and that the message received will be shared and encourage, provoke, stimulate, and bring “us” to a closer relationship with God and a renewed desire to speak for God, work for God, and rest in God in all we do.
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