Good Morning Friends,
“It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to
rule throughout the kingdom, with three administrators over them, one of whom
was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might
not suffer loss. 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 6:1-5)
Daniel was serving in a pagan government. There
was nothing righteous about it. Yet, the fact that it was pagan did not mean
Daniel could work poorly. He gave his best to his master, his employer. His
commitment to doing a good job and his integrity were the marks of his work.
Most of us work in a similar environment. It’s
not that most places of secular employment are evil, it’s just that they are
secular. They are motivated by the bottom-line. What kind of employee are you? Do
you distinguish yourself by your commitment to do a good job? Are you known as
a person of such integrity that your coworkers cannot find ways to speak
against you?
The Apostle Paul’s charge to those employed
by others was to: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working
for the Lord, not for men.” (Colossians 3:23)
That was what Daniel was doing. Even in a
pagan environment, he did his work as “for the Lord.”
His, by Grace,
Steve
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