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So the king gave the command, and they brought Daniel and cast [him] into the den of lions. [But] the king spoke, saying to Daniel, "Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you." Daniel 6:16 NKJV
Daniel was not a young man when he faced the lions’ den. He had served Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar’s son Belshazzar, and now he served in the court of Darius. His faithful service in the court of Israel’s enemies lasted almost seventy years, and in all that time, Daniel’s service to God always came first. So when Darius’s other advisers plotted the lions’ den episode—convincing Darius that the punishment for praying to anyone beside him should be death by lions—to get rid of Daniel, the prophet did as he always had. He trusted God.
The thing Daniel understood, from the moment he was taken from his people as a young man to the moment he was thrown in the pit, was this: Life is a lions’ den. There are no safe places. If plotting enemies don’t get you, illness and grief and stupidity will. Lions are everywhere, and they’re always hungry. The safest plan is to continue serving God, whom even the lions obey.
Whether or not God closes the mouths of the lions, your faithful service will ensure the safety of your soul and your witness to the world will be worth listening to.
Prayer: Father, may I always trust You more than I fear the lions.
Daniel was not a young man when he faced the lions’ den. He had served Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar’s son Belshazzar, and now he served in the court of Darius. His faithful service in the court of Israel’s enemies lasted almost seventy years, and in all that time, Daniel’s service to God always came first. So when Darius’s other advisers plotted the lions’ den episode—convincing Darius that the punishment for praying to anyone beside him should be death by lions—to get rid of Daniel, the prophet did as he always had. He trusted God.
The thing Daniel understood, from the moment he was taken from his people as a young man to the moment he was thrown in the pit, was this: Life is a lions’ den. There are no safe places. If plotting enemies don’t get you, illness and grief and stupidity will. Lions are everywhere, and they’re always hungry. The safest plan is to continue serving God, whom even the lions obey.
Whether or not God closes the mouths of the lions, your faithful service will ensure the safety of your soul and your witness to the world will be worth listening to.
Prayer: Father, may I always trust You more than I fear the lions.
