Today’s Reading: Daniel 6:1-5 (English Standard Version)
1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom;2 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss.3 Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.4 Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.5 Then these men said, We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.
Takeaways:
- King Darius had a plan for how he wanted to run things.
- He intentionally invested in just three leaders to rule over the 120 satraps that ruled over the kingdom.
- Those three leaders were direct reports to the King.
- Daniel was the highest leader…in charge of the whole kingdom.
- The people that served with and under Daniel were jealous of him and wanted him out of the way.
- They decided that they would dig up some dirt about him.
- After they dug a bit, they decided that the only thing they could do what make up something having to do with Daniel and God.
- Imagine if our lives were that clean…that the only thing someone could dig up to use against us was our relationship with God. Is that the main thing people see when they dig into the dark recesses of our lives? I sure hope so!