Title: What's That You Say?/ Topic: Communication

Today’s Reading: Daniel 5; Daniel 6; Psalm 130; Luke 3

Scripture: Daniel 5:25-28
25 "This is the inscription that was written: Mene , Mene , Tekel , Parsin
26 "This is what these words mean: Mene : God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
27 Tekel : You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
28 Peres : Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

Observation: These scriptures are interesting to me because they represent God speaking to a man in an unknown tongue that has to be interepreted by a spiritual man; much like the gift of tongues needs interpretation when exercised in a church service. One of the major arguments I have heard from proponents that claim the gift of tongues is not for today and a "false" application of the Word is that they have been in services where tongues were spoken and the word in "tongues" was very short but the interpretation was very long (or vice versa). How could it be real if there was such a difference in length? Someone must be making something up or the lengths would be more even. Wrong! Here we have just such an example written down for us. Only three different words are written by God on the wall (one is repeated twice) but Daniel's interpretation of them is quite lengthy in comparison. It's also interesting to note that this terrible prophetic word comes to the king because he refused to heed the life message of his father, who had come to know God. Many sorrows in life would be averted if adult children, as well as younger ones, would listen to their parents advice and honor their life teachings.

Application: God's ways of communicating are numerous and beyond human intellectual disection. They are spiritually discerned and come through the spirit into the mind, not the other way around. I must work to grow my spiritual senses if I want to hear all the ways God communicates to me.

Prayer: Father, help me to grow in my ability to hear all your forms of communication clearly, whether that communication comes in the form of tongues, dreams, impressions, words from fellow believers, visions, the Bible or any of the plethora of methods You have for getting Your message across. Most of all I just want to thank you for your desire to communicate with us. I want to hear, understand and obey.
This I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.