Today's sermon on Daniel struck a chord with me. As my time in NS has reached a sweet lull that would most probably perpetuate till I reach my ORD, it came as a reminder as to how I comport myself during my service. It is then easy to believe, now that I am now able to perform my duties perfunctorily, that all is well when I am where God has positioned me. When we reach the end of the narrative bit of Daniel, it is so that things did go well as Daniel walked with God. However, his time in Babylon was anything but a walk. I used to think of Daniel as a sort of holy rebel, someone with the tenacity to give the finger to any policy which would displease God. If I had taken a closer read then I would have realised that Daniel would have had to be either (a) suicidal or (b) masochistic. He had to make tough decisions and asserted his allegiance to God when it would have been easier to just lie low and hope to weather things through.
What this means for me in the remaining months and even beyond is that I have a choice to continue to let inertia run its course or stand my ground and set a standard for God.
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