Again focused my QT on our life group study book, Job-Shadowing Daniel. I am really enjoying it and learning a lot.
My take away points from Chapter 4...
In order to be a Daniel, I have to decide on issues in my heart that I will take a stance on beforehand. What matters? What will I not falter on? What things threaten my soul's health? I have to dare to be different and to make a plan if that situation arises. I don't have to dodge the issue either or make a big scene or anything. I should look for creative ways to stay true to my relationship with Jesus while preserving my relationship with whoever I am with as Daniel did time after time. As it says in Ps 86:11, "Give me an undivided heart."
Another aha moment for me was recognizing that He expects me as Christian to sometimes enter spiritually hazardous environments. It changed my perspective a bit. I sometimes was relying on the fact that because Jesus was Jesus He could do things and go places that we didn't have to or shouldn't. Now I know there are boundaries for us all of course, but there needs to light where there is darkness. I thought it was interesting that the Old Testament relied on isolationism for God's people, similar to the Amish world, but the New Testament lifted this. I spent some time thinking about that and what this means for us now.
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