daniel

i have been thinking some this morning about the life of daniel, and the purpose of god to raise up a man who could stand in the courts of the king of babylon to give perspective from god's heart during a very crucial time in the outworking of god's purposes.

i have been praying this morning that the lord would make me like daniel. i am asking him that i would be one who could understand the signs of the times, and interpret them through godly perspective.

two things stuck out to me:

1. daniel and his friends are given wisdom after they purpose to be undefiled by the delicacies of babylon. application: i wonder how much a purposed heart pursuing righteousness will be given wisdom into all things that we might be able to speak with clarity and purpose concerning the workings of god in the midst of history (our current history that is).

2. it is given of god. daniel, however naturally apt to be full of wisdom, was given a special grace to understand the wisdom and literature of the chaldeans that he might speak god's word into the midst of an important time in god's purposes.

i am asking that the lord would make me like daniel in these ways (and certainly in others). i am asking him that he would give me a supernatural spirit of wisdom that i might discern and rightly interpret that which is happening around me, that i might bring god's perspective to current situations.

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