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Inspiration from Daniel 1:17:
"As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams."
There were men whom God raised for a mission. The mission was to bring the king of Babylon to his knees. The men did not know that this was the mission for which God has raised them for. But all the while, God was preparing them for this mission for which they had been created.
Over the years, God placed things in them that they did not know would be the instruments to enter them into their destiny. God built into Daniel the kind of heart that was firmly rooted in Him, “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself…” God filled Daniel along with Shadrach, Meschach and Abed-nego with wisdom, knowledge and skill in all learning.
God gave Daniel gift of understanding in all visions and dreams. All these things had been placed in Daniel and his three friends as the necessary tools they needed in order to become what they needed to become. And when the things placed in them were made manifest, the mission of bringing the king of Babylon to his knees was accomplished.
A mission awaits each and every one of God’s children. God builds His child into what he or she needs to be for the mission He has appointed to that person. Through the years, He moulds us according to the function or role He has ordained for us. Each day, through life experiences that shape us, through things we learn, God adds the feathers of wisdom, power and knowledge that we need.
God even gives us specific personality make-ups for a purpose. God makes one to be a grave, sober, quiet person for a purpose. God makes another of a more cheerful, animated, optimistic make-up for its own purpose. Everything about us which has been authored by God is there for a specific reason.
The reason may not be so clear now. But like Daniel, Shadrach Meschach and Abednego, there is something for which we have been raised, to be made clear in its own time.
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