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Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Daniel 2:17-30
Notice the sequence of events: "Then" Daniel prays with his friends (vv. 17, 18) . . . "Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel . . . Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven" (v. 19). To make known our requests to God is our first duty "in every thing" (Philippians 4:6). But Daniel also informs his three friends so that they may join their supplications with his own. What a privilege to share a difficulty with Christian friends and together to present it to the Lord! And how effective it is, for by this means we bring ourselves within the blessing of His specific promise (Matthew 18:19).
God cannot remain deaf to the prayers of these men who fear Him. He reveals the secret to His servant (Psalms 25:14). Another man might well have run straight to the king, but for Daniel one thing is more urgent: to thank his God and to worship Him (cf. Genesis 24:26). Then only does he have himself brought before Nebuchadnezzar. We see shining out once more one of the beautiful features of this man of God: his humility. Like Joseph (Genesis 41:16), Daniel takes no credit for himself, so as to attribute all the glory to God alone (v. 30; Daniel 1:17; Ezekiel 28:3). Dear fellow believers, when the Lord has been pleased to use us in any service, may we keep ourselves in the background so as to give Him all the credit and all the fruit.
