Year 3, Day 343: Daniel 9

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Discipleship Focus: Father

• Father: God is the Father.  He is the creator.  He is love.  Our relationship with the Father is rooted in His love for us.

When we look at this chapter in Daniel, we see an awful lot of prayer.  While this would be a seemingly natural chapter to talk about prayer, I instead felt called to speak about the idea of “Father.”  The Father is in relationship with us because He loves us.  It isn’t because we earn it.  It isn’t because we deserve it.  We have relationship with God because He loves us.

This is shown clearly at the end of Daniel’s prayer in verse 18.  Daniel says, “For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.”  That verse shows us what it is like to understand God as Father.  It is His love – His mercy and grace – that allows us to know Him at all.  That is God, who comes to us.

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