National and Personal Security

The daily verse for 7:27 is Daniel 7:27, "Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him."  NIV

I guess one could say that Daniel was a dreamer.  His dreams have been called the key to all biblical prophecy.  I don't claim to understand it all, but I'm mindful that God included Daniel's dreams in scripture to portray His sovereignty.  Daniel, his friends, and fellow countrymen, faced tremendous trials and situations.  Daniel could have caved under the pressure, given up and given in, but he didn't.  Instead, he looked to God to deliver him.  He put his faith in a faithful God.  In Daniel's day, God was in control and He will always be in control.

Today, we are becoming more and more unglued as a country and a civilization.  We could despair about any number of things in our society, like natural disasters, terrorists attacks, mass murders, personal and national financial crisis, sinful and lewd behaviors - to name a few.  You name it, if our society hasn't taken it to the extreme yet, we are well on our way there.  But we could learn a lot from Daniel's example and from his dreams.  No matter what he was confronted with, he had faith that God was sovereign.  He believed that and he lived like he believed that. 

As a nation, and as a people, we can know that the same God that reigned in Daniel's time, still reigns today and will reign forever.  When nothing else seems secure in this world, we need not despair.  Just as Daniel did, we can look to a sovereign God and find our security in Him.