Daniel: Humble Servant, Faithful God - Go Your Way

Sunday we’ll finish the book of Daniel and end with God’s message to his servant, “Go your way…you shall rest and stand at your allotted place.” (Daniel 12:13) As the vision ends, Daniel sees the Man in Linen again who declares how long these terrible times will last for God’s people. Some of his people, the wise, will remain faithful, purified through the fires of tribulation, while others will continue in their wickedness.

Daniel asks an honest question, “what will be the outcome of these things?” The answer he receives is surprising, “Go your way, Daniel” (Daniel 12:9). Daniel isn’t given more information, and he isn’t given any further instructions for God’s people. He’s told to finish his course, to finish his life in humble service to God. In 1939 C.S. Lewis spoke at Oxford to the faculty and students about the Christian response to World War 2. His concluding thought, “The great thing is to be found at one’s post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.”

Join us Sunday as we consider what it means to live humbly before the Lord in terrible times.