Today’s Reading: Daniel 6:6-9 (English Standard Version)
6 Then these presidents and satraps came by agreement to the king and said to him, O King Darius, live forever!7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.8 Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.9 Therefore King Darius signed the document and injunction.
Takeaways:
- Do you smell the trap here?
- The word brown-noser definitely comes to mind here!
- Really…they went out of their way to have the King sign a decree just to get Daniel in trouble?
- If there was a similar decree put in place today, would there be enough evidence to convict me of breaking it? I pray there would be!