Day 329..."Eat your vegetables...Daniel begins...I Thessalonians also"
We move along and make the turn into some new Books today. Daniel is one of my favorite Books. Chapter one deals with diet. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego all ate vegetables. They faired better than those eating the King's food. What a special way to introduce God's ways are better than earthly kingdoms. Ezekiel does another recap of Israel's history. I like reading how almost each Book has done a history lesson. The next chapter gives the visual of the Lord with a drawn sword. Obviously, this is a sign of judgment.
Paul opens First Thessalonians with praise for their beliefs even though they previously worshipped idols. Thessalonica was a good example for other faith communities..."And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia." This reading is refreshing in light of all the disobedience to idols in the Old Testament.
posted by Philip McVay @ 10:13 AM
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Some have tried to make "Daniel" a receipt for how to eat for good health. However, his example is found in giving himself wholeheartedly to the Lord. The foods he avoided were offered to idols as a religious act, then to those submitted to those idols... if you read today's verses, that was the purpose of changing Daniel's and his three friends, names. "Submit yourself to the Lord and in do time He will lift you up."
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