I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading. Later this month it will be my wife’s and my 16th anniversary. To celebrate this event I have decided to wish my wife Happy Anniversary for 16 days.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Daniel 1-2.

    From time to time people read the first chapter of Daniel as promoting a diet of vegetables. Daniel and his friends did not ask for vegetables because they objected to eating meat. Unfortunately, the only meat that was available to them in their situation was not kosher. Vegetables were the only kosher food available to them. However, the point of this story is NOT about our diet. Daniel and his friends did not excel because of their diet (well, they did, but that’s not the point). They excelled because they were obedient to God (that is the point which the writer is making). Daniel and his friends did not eat a kosher diet because they expected to be healthier for doing so. They ate a kosher diet because they chose to be faithful to God. In other words, they were healthier than their fellows because they were faithful. We may not understand how being obedient to God will be good for us, but we can be sure that being disobedient will be bad for us.