A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                                                  FAR FROM HOME PART XV

"I, king Darius the Mede, had had to make a decision today I wished I never had to make.... I had to send my very best official to the lions' den... His name is Daniel... He is not a Medo-Persian.... He is a Hebrew.... But he has lived here in this kingdom even before I took it over from the Babylonian king Belshazzar....He has told me he came here when he was taken captive by king Nebuchadnezzar as a young man.... He is now an old man.... But he is a very wise man.... I rely on his wisdom so much... I was planning to make him administrator over my whole kingdom.... But my plans may never happen.... I now realise I was tricked by Daniel's colleagues, the other administrators.... They came to me with a proposal yesterday.... I was pleased with their proposal.....It would bring me great honour... And it might bring my kingdom together.....Their proposal was that I would make a decree for everyone in my kingdom to pray to me only for the next thirty days.... I was happy to do so.....However, I forgot one thing....I forgot that my most important official Daniel would not obey that decree....But my administrators had not forgotten.... And they had caught Daniel praying to his God... They were only too pleased to report his "crime" to me.... I had no choice but to obey my own decree,,, I have just been to see Daniel... I can only pray and hope that his God will protect him from the lions.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that king Darius the Mede has no choice but to obey his own decree....


              ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES

                                               FAR FROM HOME PART XV

Daniel, the number one administrator in the Medo-Persian kingdom, once again makes a choice to continue to obey his God, regardless of the cost, knowing full well that his action will bring him before lions according to the decree put out by king Darius the Mede, as you can read in Daniel 6:16

So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den. The king said to Daniel, "May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!"

King Darius the Mede has no choice but to have his administrator Daniel thrown before the lions. All he can hope for now is that Daniel's God will keep Daniel safe.