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Go Your Way

The end of the book has come. All of the visions and interpretations have ceased. Daniel is left with so much information about the near and distant future, all so difficult to even comprehend. But the final message to him is simple, just "go your way." It's repeated twice as if for emphasis, it reminds me that each of us is to "go our way," life is not to be played out on the sidelines. There is something so inquisitive about our human nature that we are always wanting to figure out the future, perhaps we feel it would make our life easier in that we wouldn't have to work so hard to figure out what to do . . . Yet, I think God in his mercy has given us just enough. He graciously hasn't laid out our future in minute details, for he knows that with our finite minds and bodies, we would be totally succumbed, just as Daniel often experienced throughout his vivid dreams and visions. . . No, his message is simple, "go your way."

Go your way and do good. Be a person of persistence, who stays the course in living right and doing right. Be a person who follows after Christ, who maintains a long obedience in the same direction. Go your way, there are no limitations for what you can accomplish. Go your way, even when you may feel anxious and uncertain, God knows and will give you the strength and grace to fulfill your purpose. The choice is yours to make, how you go is up to you, but go your way and live!

"And he said, 'Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time. . . But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age.'"
(Daniel 12: 9, 13)

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