Revealer of Mysteries

Day 118
There is so much more for you to know -- so much you do not understand. The great human tendency is to force everything to fit into the neat confines of the mind. You must understand that the human intellect, will and emotions are created things. How could the Creator be contained in, or controlled by, something He created?

It's all about control, isn't it? Micro-management. If you can manage your world (and everything in it) according to the way you know it should be, then all will be well. Isn't that so?

No -- it is not. The Lord who created and maintains all the heavens and the earth can take a thing of horrific darkness and transform it into radiant life. Only your Creator has the power to do that. Too many things are beyond your control. But nothing is beyond Me. All things are under my feet. Will you relinquish control? If you do, I will be the Revealer of your mysteries.

Daniel answered before the king and said, "As for the mystery about which the king has inquired, neither wise men, conjurers, magicians nor diviners are able to declare it to the king. However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. -- Daniel 2:27-28

We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. -- Romans 4:17 [The Message]

Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life." -- John 8:12

During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven and said: "Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him. I thank and praise you, O God of my fathers: You have given me wisdom and power, you have made known to me what we asked of you, you have made known to us the dream of the king." -- Daniel 2:19-23