Year 3, Day 336: Daniel 2

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Discipleship Focus: Character/Competency

• Character: Having the interior life that is necessary to support the work that God sets before a person.  It is hearing from God and obeying.  It is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.
• Competency: Being able to accomplish what one is called to do.

Today, I am brought to the idea of the interplay between character and competency.  Yesterday we spoke about Daniel’s character.  Again we see the following characteristics of character in Daniel’s life:

• Daniel has a faith within him that can be lived out.  His faith is not just words and mantras and platitudes; his faith is practiced and measured and able to be imitated.
• Daniel goes to God and hears from Him.
• Daniel follows through on God’s word to him.  Daniel goes before the king at great risk to his life.  But here is the thing.  Daniel does it not to save his own neck or the necks of the Babylonian sages.  Daniel does it so that Nebuchadnezzar can hear concretely from God.
• Clearly, Daniel does the right thing.  He could have let the Babylonian sages die.  But he stands up and does what God asks of him.

We also can see Daniel’s competency:

• He is successfully able to relay God’s message to Nebuchadnezzar.  He is able to tell the dream, interpret the dream, and convince Nebuchadnezzar that there is no God like the God of the Hebrew people.

What we understand here is the potential for a person who has the character God makes within them and the competency God empowers.  Such a person has unlimited potential to be used by God.

  

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