Straight to the Source

In Daniel 2:2 King Nebuchadnezzar has had enough of his insomnia and his dream. He called on the people who were supposed to provide him insight into the spiritual realm. He called on his wise men, his advisors—sorcerers, magicians, conjurers, and the Chaldeans. These people were the learned among his advisors. These are the people he relied on when he needed information from the spiritual realm and guidance for his actions. He must have been let down by them several times because this time he did not reveal to them the dream he had; but rather he tested the abilities by requiring that they first describe to him the dream and then interpret it.

So often when we are faced with situations where we are in need of advice we call our wise men to help us—they are our friends, our mentors, professionals, whoever we can think can offer insight into what we are going through. What we need to remember though is that these labels they wear are ones that we have assigned them. They have no more insight into what we are going through than we do. They cannot predict the outcome or future circumstance with any more certainty than you or I can. We look to professionals to help us with our problems because we figure they are intelligent and studied up on what is facing us. That is partially true, they are professionals because they have completed a series of courses that merited them a degree. That degree does make them anymore intelligent that you or I. It does qualify them to be able to predict our future or tell us how we should proceed in any situation.

The king saw the wise men before him for what they were—perpetrators. They claimed to have insight into the spiritual realm and into the meanings of dreams. Yet without the knowledge of the dream they could not interpret it. Much like the modern day shrinks of today cannot tell you what a dream means until they know the content of it. Who is to say that the substance of your dream has the same symbolism as the substance of my dream? When the king saw the uselessness of the wise men in his court he ordered them all killed. What use were they to him? My point is this—we all run to the people we have deemed to be the wise men in our lives when we need a fresh word or a sense of direction. Why do we run to the people who are in the same boat we are. We need to run to the run to whom all of our dreams and visions should be held captive to. We need to go to the source of all inspiration and the one who in infinite in the amount of wisdom He holds. It wasn’t until Daniel intervened and went before God that the truths of the king’s dream were revealed. Daniel went to the source, sought out God’s wisdom and God was faithful to meet Daniel with what he was looking for.

Father let me always come straight to You for what I need. Amen.