Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this
Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. –
Daniel 6.5
As I mentioned a couple of days ago Daniel, a Jewish
captive, had risen to the position of what was very possibly the second most
powerful man in the world as ‘prime minister’ of Babylon.
Of course these guys were not happy so they tried everything
they could to bring him down. They watched him. They had to find his skeleton
in the closet. In our world today those skeletons are coming out every day. Surely
there was something they.
But they found nothing – nothing at all. ‘We are not
going to find anything wrong with him unless we can do something relating to
his God. He is true to his God so we have to find something there.
There still was nothing.
So there only answer was to make his worship illegal.
They had the king sign a decree that no one could pray to anyone but the king.
More on that later, but for now Daniel reminds me that
we ought to live our lives in such a way that there is never a reason for
anyone to condemn. We must give them no ammunition against. The only offence
should be the offence of the gospel of Christ.
The we can leave the results with Him.
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