TUESDAY, APRIL 10
Daniel 2:10-11
Isaiah 55:8-9

“… so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

NO MAN ON EARTH CAN DECLARE IT

“There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter …” (Dan 2:10). How true! Even if it were not for our sinfulness, the very fact that we were created as finite beings forever excludes us, even in glory, of knowing all the secrets of God! “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever …” (Deut 29:29).

The moment of ultimate crisis had come to these magicians. And it came in the form of a clever, brilliant, powerful king who demanded real proof that they had access to supernatural knowledge. In vain did they complain of the king’s unfairness: “… there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean” (Dan 2:10). Isaiah had predicted this 150 years earlier: “Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth … Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth … Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee” (Isa 47:11-13). Not only could they not save Babylon from the armies of Cyrus (Isa 45), they could not even save themselves from their own Babylonian king!

All of this gives powerful, yes, conclusive evidence that the difference between man’s corporate wisdom and the wisdom of God is infinite. Until we learn this, we will continue to be captivated and manipulated by the philosophies of sinful men. “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” (Col 2:8). In every generation, Satan is ready to lead us away from God’s eternal and unchanging truth and to concentrate on the futile and changing opinions of men who are no better than Nebuchadnezzar’s magicians.

THOUGHT: One clear word from God is sufficient to dispel the fog of human opinions.
PRAYER: O God, help me to set my mind on Christ the Lord who is seated at Thy right hand in heaven.