Sometimes a passage, though read many, many times, will suddenly take on a whole new meaning! This passage really jumped out at me this morning...
"Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. At this, the administrators and the satraps TRIED to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were UNABLE to do so. They could find NO corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent. Finally these men said, "We will NEVER find any basis for charges against this man Daniel UNLESS it has something to do with the law of his God." Daniel 6:3-5
Which makes me wonder: How far would your enemies have to look before they found grounds for charges against you? How long would they have to seek before they could go running to the king? Would your life be such that they could find NO corruption in you, not even a basis for a charge UNLESS it has something to do with the law of your God? Unfortunately, my enemies probably wouldn't have to look very far... Which leads me to this:
Lord, change my heart to be more fixed on you than on the things of this world around me. Take away my desire for wrong and let me fix my eyes on YOU! Set my heart on things above and not the mundane of this earth.
Psa. 121:1 I look up to the mountains—
does my help come from there?
2 My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth!
Psa. 123:1 I lift my eyes to You,
O God, enthroned in heaven.
