Leave Your Window Open!

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Finally, they said to one another, “We will never be able to bring any charge against Daniel, unless it has to do with his religion.”

They all went to the king and said:
“Your Majesty, we hope you live forever! All of your officials, leaders, advisors, and governors agree that you should make a law forbidding anyone to pray to any god or human except you for the next 30 days. Everyone who disobeys this law must be thrown into a pit of lions.

Order this to be written and then sign it, so it cannot be changed, just as no written law of the Medes and Persians can be changed.”

So King Darius made the law and had it written down.

Daniel heard about the law, but when he returned home, he went upstairs and prayed in front of the window that faced Jerusalem. In the same way that he had always done, he knelt down in prayer three times a day, giving thanks to God.

The men who had spoken to the king watched Daniel and saw him praying to his God for help.

Daniel 6:5-11

When Daniel disobeyed the newly made law that made it illegal to pray to anyone except the king he must have known what would happen. Daniel prayed like he had done before and in a place where he could be seen by those plotting his demise!

Daniel could have "wisely" prayed behind a closed door and at least pulled a curtain in front of the window so no one could see. Daniel could even have prayed silently for those thirty days so that he would not "offend" anyone who saw him.

Instead Daniel trusted God and proceeded to pray as he had always done.

Still today it is "illegal" to express your faith in Jesus Christ publicly in a number of countries. And some, like the United States are convinced it is illegal even though there is no law against it. At least not yet.

If you want to be a man or woman of faith like Daniel it can be very risky! Let your relationship to Jesus be the final Word in every action that you take. Let nothing, even a new law, come in between you and Jesus.

When the law of God and the law of man come into conflict choosing to follow God is never a loosing strategy. Live your life like Daniel praying in front of an open window and then you will have nothing to fear from the den of lions, even if they kill you!

Remember if you pray without ceasing you will pray when the window is shut and when the window is open. But the example of Daniel is this: Leave your window open and trust God!