What Really Matters by Clinton A. Macomber

• Title Page
• Introduction
• General Overview
• Daniel 1:1-6
• Daniel 1:7-21
• Daniel 2
• Daniel 3
• Daniel 4
• Daniel 5
• Daniel 6
• Daniel 7
  • The Importance of Honoring God
  • Biblical Respect
  • Quotable
  • Did You Know?
  • Devotions
  • Word Search Puzzle
• Daniel 8
• Daniel 9
• Daniel 10
• Daniel 11
• Daniel 12

Did You Know?

God seeks to reach us even during our sleep. If we think about heavenly things during the day, we will dream about heavenly things at night. During our sleep, we file away and organize the things learned during our waking hours. If we learn nothing holy, there is nothing good for the brain to digest while we sleep.

Learning the things of God is not a simple and quick thing to do. It takes great effort and lots of discipline and thought to understand. One must literally immerse himself completely in God’s word to grow. He must memorize vast quantities of Scripture to give the Holy Spirit tools to use to lead us into all truth and understanding.

“Boston, Mass—The people who dismissed deep thinkers like Albert Einstein, as “dreamers” were right, a Boston sleep researcher says. Dr. Ernest Hartmann said his studies show those who need more than nine hours of sleep every night are worriers who apparently mull over their problems while they dream. Those who sleep fewer than six hours a night—like Thomas Edison and Napoleon—tend to be efficient people who push problems aside and get on with the job, he said. “One might suggest very roughly that great men in the sense of “tortured genuises” might be more likely to be long sleepers,” said Hartmann of Boston state hospital, where he has studied sleep habits since 1969. “Great men in the sense of extremely effective, practical persons—administrators, applied scientists, political leaders, perhaps—may tend to be short sleepers,” he said in an interview. The main difference in what kind of sleep each group gets seems to be how much they dream, he said. The long sleepers in his study spent two or three times as long in rapid eye movement or “REM” sleep, the period when dreams occur, he said. He speculated they need the extra dreaming to resolve mental and emotional needs.¹

¹P.L. Tan, Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations, Garland TX: Bible Communications, 1996, c1979.