FAITH CAPSULE: The kind of love Daniel had for God positioned him for deliverance and preservation from his enemies.
Daniel 6
God is a jealous God, and the antidote to jealousy is attention.
To love God is to seek Him uniquely.
The life of Daniel demonstrates an uncommon way to love God.
Daniel loves God; he established a custom approach and relationship with God.
Evidently, Daniel could not let the day pass by without gaining the presence of God.
The kind of love Daniel had for God positioned him for deliverance and preservation from his enemies.
When he was marked for an untimely death in the den of hungry lions, he made his way out by his testimony in Daniel 6:10, “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.”
How can a believer claim to love God and only pray to God when tough times and challenges arrive?
It takes more than attending church to worship God and to show love for Him.
God is a jealous God, and the antidote to jealousy is attention.
When given attention to God, God will attend to such.
When love for God counts, God will respond with His love.
In the love of God is His mercy.
Romans 9:15 records, “For He says to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
As much as God’s mercy is for only the ones He chooses to have mercy, when you love God, you have positioned yourself for the undeniable mercy of God.
Exodus 20:6 confirmed the mercy of God for those who love Him when it stated, “…but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep my commandments.”
Among the blessings of loving God is that God will always fight on behalf of those who love Him indeed and in truth.
God will fight against every unknown and known enemy in the life of those who love Him.
When God fought on behalf of the children of Israel against Balak and Balaam, He fought their battle favorably.
When you love the Lord, He will turn against your enemy like He did for the children of Israel against Balak.
God is true as stated, “…LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you. (Deuteronomy 23:5)
Also, when you love God, His blessings will pass on to your descendants. After many years of the Israelites in bondage for over four hundred years, the love of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob made God deliver the Israelites as stated in Deuteronomy 4:37, “And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power.”
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live life, loving Him continually.