FAITH CAPSULE: What is your character before God?
Daniel 1
Who are you before God?
God is the creator of all that knows all more than anyone knows self.
What is your character before God?
God identifies Job in the attempt of satan over his life, stating, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?”
So, who are you before God?
Your character is rooted in your life of responsibility before God.
Will you allow your responsibility to become your character to claim the promises of God in His word?
Get to know God and meditate on the word of God continually.
RESPONSIBILITY IS TO KNOW GOD
In John 8:31-32, the word speaks to all, “…you shall now the truth…” There is no excuse for no man not to know the word of God.
Knowing God is a task, a responsibility to claim the promises of God.
Daniel is an example among those who know God, and he lived the life of responsibility before God, for greatness to the glory of God.
Daniel 11:32 records, “but the people who know their God shall be strong and carry out great exploits.”
Daniel knows God, lived a life of responsibility before God, and did not defile himself. In his heart, he purposed not to defile himself with delicacies of an unbeliever king. The Bible records, “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore, he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” (Daniel 1:8)
RESPONSIBILITY IS MEDITATING THE WORD OF GOD
Meditating the Word of God is a responsibility to live life for the glory of God.
God identifies the importance of meditating His word when He called meditation for Joshua.
After the death of Moses, God spoke to Joshua about the importance of meditating His word, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Joshua 1:8)
To be meditating is communicating with God continually, relating and involving God in life day and night.
God is true to deliver by His word.
The importance of meditating is in the pages of the Bible.
1Timothy 4:15 states, “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.”
“I will meditate on Your precepts and contemplate Your ways.” (Psalm 119:15)
Continual meditation on the word of God is living a life of responsibility before God to experience failure impossible in life.
Responsibility before God is the price for greatness.
In life, think responsibly, act responsibly and allow responsibility to become your garment before God.
Above all, be consistently responsible before God.
Prayer for today: As for the hand of God establish over your life to live life for His glory.