Daniel 2 is the story of God showing Daniel Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and giving him the interpretation. Man could have come up with some kind of interpretation, accurate or not, but no man could have known the king’s dream. If the dream was from God, then God alone would be able to tell it to another.

When God gives Daniel the same dream to reveal it to him, Daniel responds with praise. He blesses the name of the Lord and says that might and wisdom belong to God. Then he will go on to say that God gives wisdom to the wise.

I wanted to talk about that phrase, gives wisdom to the wise. These aren’t worldly-wise people who are now getting wisdom from God. Their only wisdom is from God.

1 Corinthians 1:30 says, “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—”

Jesus became our wisdom.

It’s not that we get wisdom and then are wise. He is our wisdom.

We need to think of our identity in Christ. We no longer live, but Christ lives in us. We have peace because we have Jesus. He is our peace. We have life because we have Jesus. He is our life. We have strength because He is our strength. He doesn’t give us strength so we can then go off and work in our strength. He is our strength. He is all.

This verse from 1 Corinthians says Jesus became not only our wisdom but our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

He became our righteousness. We have no righteousness on our own.

He is our perfection, our holiness, and certainly the blood-price for our salvation.

Don’t work for the Lord. Let Him be God and perform all things.

After we are told how God has become to us all those things, we are reminded in the next verse, “that, as it is written, ‘He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.’”

He is our boast. We should never think we have anything in and of ourselves. He alone gets the glory.