September 22

Daniel 6

Killing Sin

Daniel 6:5 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.”

We live in a day without heroes. It seems that every public figure has some dirty secret in their closet. If someone wanted to dig up some dirt on you, how difficult would it be?
When we read the story of Daniel we see one of the few characters in the Bible who doesn’t have a secret closet. Now that I think about it, he does have a secret closet, but he uses it for prayer. To Daniel’s credit, this guy is squeaky clean. Not even a rumor to build a scandal on in the National Inquirer.
So what was his secret? Three times a day he would get down on his knees and pray. Why three times? My guess is that sin is such a powerful and devious enemy Daniel could only go 6 hours without realigning his heart to gaze on the face of God. Daniel found that gazing on God’s beauty and holiness would give him enough strength and make it 6 hours.
We are all in need of spiritual transformation in our lives. May I suggest we copy Daniel’s discipline to keep us all on the straight and narrow pathway? Let’s take the challenge from Daniel One... do a test for the next 10 days. Let’s pray three times a day on our knees and see if after 10 days and see if our hearts are not much stronger.
There is no better time to start than right now.

Lord, I pray that many will take up this 10 day challenge. May we all gaze upon your beauty and your character over the next 10 days. Lord, give us your strength to kill sin in our lives. We want to live in freedom and victory that Daniel experienced. In Jesus’ name Amen