based on the Love God Greatly study, Living Faithful in a Faithless Land/w6d1
Scripture: Our Road Map for God’s Journey / Daniel 11:31-36 (35)
Even some of the wise will stumble, resulting in their refinement, purification, and cleansing until the time of the end, for it is still for the appointed time.
Daniel 11:35
Today’s journey wraps up our time in Daniel as we look at another vision concerning the end of time. We will spend the rest of our quest receiving further wisdom and encouragement to live faithfully in a faithless land. Because of the complexity of the vision and my previously confessed difficulty in this area of Scripture, I am sharing the bulk of today’s Love God Greatly journal entry, which I believe is a helpful guide and encouragement for this passage.
As with the other visions, questions are raised both in Daniel’s mind and our own. The journal points out that: “while many of these “go unanswered both for Daniel and ourselves, he was told to ‘close up these words and seal the book until the times of the end'” (Daniel 12:14).
“But as for that day and hour no one knows it – not even the angels in heaven – except the Father alone.”
Matthew 24:36
“Many people have spent a lot of time and energy trying to figure out the exact historical events and even dates for the end of time.” But as the journal warns us to remember, “we are specifically told we won’t know.”
Encouragement From Today’s Journey
How you live matters to God, whether you are living in a peaceful season or a challenging one.
LGG Journal / Living Faithful in a Faithless Land / p181
We have all sinned and fallen short of God’s glory, but through our faith in Jesus Christ, we have been forgiven and have this eternal hope: “We are being refined, purified, and cleansed by God.” So, let’s embrace His forgiveness and allow Him to change us from the inside out. 🦋
Prayer Response for Today’s Journey
Father, it is so easy to get caught up in thoughts of our past mistakes/sins/choices. When this happens, it is easy to be tricked by the enemy into thinking that how we live no longer matters. The truth is the enemy doesn’t want us to remember we have been forgiven because he doesn’t want us to walk in the freedom that Christ died to give us. Help us to walk in the freedom we have in Christ Jesus. This side of Heaven, we will stumble, but when we do, You have promised forgiveness – through the blood of Jesus! May Your Refining fire become our sole desire – that we may be purged and cleansed and purified so that You will be glorified in and through us. – Amen, in the name of our Savior – who is Jesus!
The More We Know
For more insight, check out today’s LGG Blog Post
Further Reading Romans 12:1-2
Me From the Inside Out 