DAILY READINGS: Exodus 38; Psalms 90-91; Acts 22:22 to 23:11
Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. Daniel 6:3
Charles H. Spurgeon once told the story of a class of boys who were having a Bible lesson on Daniel. One boy was asked to read some verses aloud, and when he came to Daniel 6:3, which reads "because an excellent spirit was in him,” by mistake the boy read “because an excellent spine was in him.” While it was undoubtedly poor reading, it was nonetheless excellent theology, for Daniel was a man of real backbone. And this is precisely what is needed in the Church today. —W. Ross Rainey
Ye that are brave now serve Him against unnumbered foes;
Let courage rise with danger, and strength to strength oppose.—George Duffield Jr.