Daniel
Daniel was a lot easier to read this time, than it was several years ago when I tried to get through it. I remember giving up when Daniel started having all the visions. For some reason, this time around, the visions were pretty easy to understand.
Even so, the best part of the book is the first few chapters when Daniel and his friends are so bold! What I would give to be so bold! I love what Shadrack, Meshach and Abednego say to King Nebuchadnezzar when he threatens to throw them into the burning furnace for not worshiping the graven image: "If the God we serve is able to deliver us, then he will deliver us from the blazing furnace and from Your Majesty's hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up." God is still God, no matter what!
How about the admission of King Nebuchadnezzar in chapter 4, when he realizes that God is Supreme? Sure enough God "does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth."
I've always loved the response of the three young men as they stood before Nebuchadnezzar, too. Such confidence in their, and our, God!
Posted by: Sue | June 25, 2008 at 06:16 PM