But Daniel determined that he would not defile himself by eating the king's food or drinking his wine, so he asked the head of the palace staff to exempt him from the royal diet. The head of the palace staff, by God's grace, liked Daniel, but he warned him, "I'm afraid of what my master the king will do. He is the one who assigned this diet and if he sees that you are not as healthy as the rest, he'll have my head!" (Daniel 1:8-10)
Living for God requires determination. If you don't choose to make the right choices in advance you will probably make the wrong ones.
When you read this part in Daniel it's easy to see the results of making right choices. He ate food that was clean and because of that him and his friends were the healthiest. We can see that we should choose to live God's way and we will have good results right?
Remember this: Daniel did not know that he would end up the healthiest.
He was willing to follow God's way and take whatever the consequences were. In the same way we don't always know that following what God tells us to do will end with results that are easy or simple.
Choose to do what Jesus would do anyway. Now, before the crunch time.
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