IBS WEEK 6

Daniel 6:4

"...They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent."

I ask myself why it seems Daniel was so perfect. It's not that he was, but it seems that way because who can say that nobody could find any fault in them? Imagine having no one to say anything bad about you. It seems so simply: do nothing wrong. But the problem is we're not simple beings; we're complicated and sinning flesh that continue to do wrong. 
The answer, though, IS simple: Jesus. As we're constantly being filled with the Spirit, we don't do wrong. We act only in the Spirit, allowing God to use us as we're intended to be used. There will not be an issue of trust here, as we can surely trust God with our entire beings! If we can trust Him with our eternity, why can't we trust Him with our today?

Daniel was a man of integrity and always did right, but it's because he was constantly serving and trusting in the Lord. As later in the chapter says more than once, Daniel has God, who he serves CONTINUALLY. Not just on downtime, or at church on Sundays. 

My application is to simply get up in the morning a measly 5 minutes earlier, so that time can be singularly focused on God--on thanking Him for waking me up, on praising His power, and on asking Him to fill me with His Spirit, that I may serve Him the entire day through, thus creating the habit of serving Him my entire life through.