11.30.2025 | Daniel Obeyed God
Daniel 1
The basic ingredients for chocolate chip cookies include flour, sugar, eggs, baking soda, butter, vanilla, salt, and chocolate chips. Do you know what would happen if you gathered each of these items and threw them into a bowl? You’d have a big mess and no cookies to enjoy! That’s because the recipe requires you to follow specific instructions and steps to make the perfect cookie.
Daniel loved God and wanted to obey Him. Even though Daniel was living in a foreign land with a pagan king, Daniel wanted to remain faithful to God’s laws. Like a recipe with specific instructions, God’s laws told Daniel exactly what he could and could not eat. Daniel chose to honor God by refusing the king’s food and asking permission to eat only vegetables and drink only water. God blessed Daniel’s faithfulness by giving him wisdom and strength!
The Bible tells us that God is perfect and holy and that God calls His people to likewise be holy and different from the world. The problem is that none of us can perfectly obey.
As we learn about Daniel’s obedience in this story, it’s a reminder of the perfect obedience we see in Jesus. Jesus perfectly obeyed God’s plan—even when it meant dying on the cross. If we trust in Him, Jesus credits us with His perfect righteousness!
Daniel was faithful to obey God, even in the small matters like eating the correct foods. Jesus was faithful to obey God in every way. When we trust in Jesus as Savior, God credits us with the perfect life Jesus lived.
