FAITH CAPSULE: God is a jealous God and the antidote of jealousy is attention.
Daniel 6
When there is love for God you will seek Him in a unique way. Daniel’s love for God was an example of love for God in a unique. Daniel’s love for God established his custom approach and relationship with his God. Daniel could not let the day pass by without going into the presence of God. The kind of love Daniel had for God, positioned him for deliverance and preservation from the hand of 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 church attendance every Sunday to worship God and to show our love for Him. God is a jealous God and the antidote of jealousy is attention. When we give attention to God, God will attend to us. When Gods sees our love for Him He will respond with His love for us. It is written in Romans 9:15, “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 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. He 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 without them having any knowledge of it. 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 onto your descendants. After many years of the Israelites in the bondage of over four hundred years, the love of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob made God to deliver 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 for the grace to love Him continually.