Now He Tells Them!

 

November 21, 2022

 

The radio Bible study today dealt with Daniel and his friends refusing to eat the food that Nebuchadnezzar supplied, because it was proscribed for Jewish people. Instead, Daniel proposed to the man in charge of the cadre of young men chosen as the best of the best that he and his friends only eat vegetables, and the king could determine whether their health suffered. In this way, he and his friends honored God and kept the commandments of their religion, proving that they were faithful, even when it would have been to their worldly advantage just to go along with what the king wanted.

 

I couldn’t help remembering that centuries later, Jesus said, “It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of it.”

 

I imagined Daniel sitting up in heaven, going, “Then what did I go through all that for???”