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“Then these men said, ‘We will not find any ground of accusation against this Daniel unless we find it against him regarding the law of his God.’”

—Daniel 6:5

Daniel was being promoted above all the other overseers the king had appointed, and they were jealous. They wanted to accuse him of disloyalty to the king, but they could find nothing.

When we consider the fact that Daniel was a foreign captive taken into the king’s service and likely made a eunuch, this is saying something. By all earthly rights, he should’ve hated the king and the kingdom he was serving. We would hardly blame him if he’d been planning sedition and murder.

But Daniel served with such integrity that no fault could be found in him. Those men knew, however, that his devotion to God was unfailing, and they found a way to use that against him.

If we were forced into servanthood in an evil household, would we do our job so faithfully that our master would trust us above all others? If others tried to find a way to bring us down, would there be evidence that would convict us and bring shame to God’s name? Would our dedication to God be enough to incriminate us if that were the criteria?

Like Daniel, we live in an evil world, often in difficult circumstances we did not choose. How do we perform our duties to those in authority over us? They’re often not godly people, and it would be easy to say they’re not worthy of our effort, but our service is to God (Colossians 3:23–24). Our integrity is to him, and our only fault should be that we will not disobey God’s law to follow man’s, no matter what power that man has.

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