Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale Daily DevotionalSample

El-el By now we're familiar with a formula found throughout God's Word. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the writers of scripture would take the commonly used word for God in those times, El, and then connect it with another word to emphasize a particular aspect of God's nature. But now it's the Prophet Daniel who does something totally different. Instead of joining El with a different word, he takes El and joins it with...el. What's the significance of Daniel doing this? As we learned earlier in the month, El was the understood designation for a divine being in the ancient world. In a manner of speaking, it was a sort of "end of the line" expression. There just wasn't a greater word that people could employ to describe the deities they worshipped. El was really it. So watch what Daniel does, he takes that word of highest honor that the ungodly nations were using and ups the ante. He refers to his God as the El of all El's...the God of all gods! Don't misunderstand here. Daniel wasn't validating the actual existence of these false deities. Instead, he was saying the gap between their worshippers and them was now matched by the gap between them and the true and living God. He was establishing a scale of value where the best the ungodly had was still nothing next to his God. El-el...the God all other gods worship and bow down to. You just can't get any higher than that! That was Daniel's point in invoking this name, and it's the same sense of superiority we see in the New Testament when it comes to Jesus Christ, the King of all kings and Lord of all lords. And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. (Revelation 19:16 NKJV) Daniel takes the word of highest honor that the ungodly nations were using and ups the ante. He refers to his God as the El of all El's...the God of all gods! Think about it... What does this passage reveal to me about God? What does this passage reveal to me about myself? Based on this, what changes do I need to make? What is my prayer for today?