Today, I am reading and commenting on Daniel 5-6.

I usually write something about the account of the writing on the wall because there are so many lessons for us there.  However, today I want to focus more on the account of Daniel being thrown into the lion’s den.  What I am going to write is not new or novel.  When Darius decided to make Daniel chief administrator over his kingdom, the existing bureaucrats tried to find something which would give them leverage over him.  When they could not find anything, they came up with a new law making his prayers to God illegal.  This wasn’t just because they knew he would not stop praying to God.  It was also because they knew that praying to God was part of the basis for why he did nothing which they could hold over him.  In fact, the reason they felt threatened by Daniel was because he refused to do anything which they could hold against him.  The important lesson is that Daniel did not behave in a manner that gave them nothing to hold against him because he was following the laws of the land.  He did nothing they could hold against him because he was following God’s laws.  We should follow Daniel’s example and live so that the only thing people can hold against us is our obedience to, and worship of, God.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.