Daniel

Daniel is one of the most popular people of the Bible. He is known for heroic deeds – sleeping in the lion’s den without being devoured, eating vegetables and water, and being healthier and wiser than all the wise men and interpreting dreams.

 In all these occasions, what seems to be outstanding is how God comes to save them. He gave them wisdom even when they ate way less than the others. He came through for Shadrach and his friends when they were thrown into a hot furnace. He came through for Daniel when he was thrown in the lions’ den.

The one thing not many people talk about is his diligence to God. Daniel is a man who loved God, and wasn’t afraid to show it. He openly showed his devotion to God. He asked the cook to make him and his friends a meal of vegetables despite the fact that the cook had been given strict orders not to do so. He asked the king for three days of prayer when the king had ordered that their head be chopped off. He prayed in public, on an open window, when the king had just minutes before ordered that he alone is to be worshipped.

 He stuck to God like glue even when death stared at him in the face. He was loyal to God when his enemies made traps to end him because of what he believed. He prayed and fasted, and was in constant communion with God. God was the centre of his life, and not vice versa.

 
No wonder, when all was done, God said to Him, “As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance”