We all remember the WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) bracelets that were widely popular and even now are still around. The purpose of the bracelets was to try to think through what Jesus would do in whatever situation you were facing.

Given the culture we live in today in the 21st century, Marvin Olasky of World Magazine thinks that maybe another bracelet would be extremely useful to Christians today—WWDD (What Would Daniel Do?)

Yes, he is talking about the Daniel of the Bible. The Daniel that as Olaskly says, “for at least 66 years, from 605 to 539 B.C. was a Babylonian public servant who really did try to serve a strange public while remaining true to God. He faced down two death threats and saw his friends survive a third.” (September 19th edition, p. 64)

I think looking to Daniel could be very wise for Christians today. His example of how he remained faithful to God while living in exile in Babylon in extremely powerful.

Today, it is all too easy for Christians to be so assimilated to the culture in which we live that there is hardly a difference between the Christian and the non-Christian. I think the reason for this is that we are afraid of being marginalized by the culture. We don’t want to be “those people”.

But, as Daniel showed us, we can live for God while still living in the culture that we are a part of. In fact, that is what we are called to do! We are called to make disciples and that can’t be done in places where everyone is already a Christian.

We live in difficult days—but Daniel lived in some difficult days and by the way, Jesus lived in some really difficult days also!! Isn’t wonderful that we have examples of how to live in our times!!

The challenge this week is to read to first chapter of Daniel. Study the decisions Daniel made that would allow his witness to bring godly influence to his times. Pray about what you learn and see if God brings you to a resolution like He did Daniel.

More to come…
Jeremy