You can't google: why am I feeling this way?

In life, we go through so many things. We go through something tough and we want to know why. As humans we naturally want to know the reasoning behind everything. It's the world we live in today. Most of the time we have the power, because of technology, to figure out whatever we want to. Unfortunately you can't google the answer to why am I feeling this way, or why didn't I understand this. The way to do that is alone time with God and really learning about yourself.

In Daniel chapter 8, he had another vision. This vision was about a Ram and a goat. Of all things...a ram and goat.

In the dream he had, he saw a ram standing on the bank of a canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last. Daniel saw that the ram was charging westward and northward and southward. No other beast could stand before him. While Daniel was considering this, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. The goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes. Then, this goat came at the ram, and struck it between the horns. The goat then became exceedingly great, but when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it there came up four more horns towards the four winds of heaven.

I don't know about you, but none of that makes any sense to me. Daniel sought to understand this vision. When this happened, the arch angel Gabriel showed up to interpret this dream. Daniel was frightened when he saw Gabriel. Gabriel than said this to Daniel: "Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end." 

Gabriel interpreted the entire dream to Daniel. Daniel was as lost and confused as I was and as you probably are as well. Daniel then said this. "The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true, but seal up the vision, for it refers to many days from now." He understood that the vision was true. He also told him to seal it back up. There was going to be a time where it was meant for Daniel to understand it and right now wasn't the time. He was going to know...when the time was right.

During this time of not knowing what the vision was about, Daniel got up and went about the king's business. He was appalled by the vision even though he didn't understand that.

We can learn an important lesson from Daniel here. He didn't understand what was going on, yet he got back to doing what he does, and was appalled by it.  He didn't get frustrated because he didn't understand the vision, he got back to doing what he does.

We we don't know the answer to something, it's okay. Most likely it's just not the right time. In those times of wondering, we need to stay on our feet and do what we do. Be appalled by the unknown! Be curious, be excited!

Trust me. We don't have the answer to everything that is going on in our lives. We are humans and aren't capable of that. Let what you don't know excite you and motivate you. Don't let it bring you down. Remember...when Daniel didn't understand, he got on his feet and continued doing what he does.