What My Workplace Sees in Me Should be God

[S] Daniel 6:28 --
 ²⁸So this Daniel enjoyed success in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.  (NIV)
 ²⁸ So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.  (NLT)

[O] To me, this passage summarized Daniel's faithfulness and God's recognition of that superbly.  He was recognized by the queen to be the one with an extraordinary spirit, knowledge and insight, interpretation of dreams, explanation of enigmas and solving of difficult problem (Daniel 5:12).  Then the King Belshazzar restates that when he meets Daniel (Daniel 5:16).  When the king offers a prize for interpreting the writings on the wall, Daniel was not interested (Daniel 5:17 -- Keep your gifts for yourself or give your rewards to someone else).  The king appoints him anyways as the third ruler in the kingdom and God continued to shower wonderful spirit in and through Daniel's life (Daniel 6:3).  When those who were jealous of Daniel's recognition by the king they conspired against him by cunningly convincing the king to essentially set a trap for Daniel, he knew all about it but he went ahead and continue to pay his respect and worshiped God as "he had been doing previously." (Daniel 6:10)  He wasn't about to change his relationship with God by the schemes of his enemies.  What a faithfulness!  After God has protected Daniel from the lions, even the king now fully recognized the power of our Father (Daniel 6:16) and even went on to make a decree for everyone to fear and tremble our Father in Heaven (Daniel 6:26).  And now ends with this verse 28 where Daniel prospered right in the center of the world's most powerful nation under the two kings.  The path leading up to this point was not about hitting home runs in a start up, or getting the highest degrees of education, but his faithfulness to God without compromise.  Today's reading re-energized me to maintain my workplace ministry vision and how we could all be like Daniel to establish our positions as the people of God.

[A] While I knew one of the most difficult place to live out the life as a minister is at our workplaces in my mind I was losing a bit of momentum.  But having read this wonderful reminder through my divine mentor, Daniel's life I'm once again encouraged to take my workplace as my full-time ministry.

[P] Dear Heavenly Father, You have called me into my workplace as the unique minister for those who I work with.  There are many who really need You in their lives and while I pray for them at times I am very cautious about how to approach them.  May I not take too much time and miss opportunities so pleas allow boldness and discernment to know when I could represent You just like how Daniel's life did just that.  I humbly ask all this in Your name.  Amen.