Daniel 1:9

Now God had brought Daniel info favor and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.

Today's Thought: Only the Lord can prepare favor among men for you.


Working in a company is not easy. You have to maintain a harmonious relationship with co-workers who may not like you. Conflicts arise in the workplace and it becomes the reason for the turnover among employees. As much as it is true with the workplace, it is also true with other aspects and areas of a person's life.

Daniel had just been taken captive from Judah as one of the chosen young men to be under the Jewish education program of Nebuchadnezzar. It was a new land with the eunuchs who didn't have affinity with the nation of Israel. It would have been already hard. And Daniel contended not to defile himself with the meat at the king's table - that would mean disaster. But Daniel found favor with the prince of eunuchs. It was the Lord who brought that favor, who worked in the heart of the prince of eunuchs for him to favor Daniel.

If we want to be favored at school, at the our workplace, or anywhere, let us first found favor in the sight of God. If we have an intimate relationship with God, surely all these things will He add unto us.

Job 40:4

Behold, I am vile: what shall I answer three? I will lay mine hand upon my head. 

Today's Thought: God knows the best for us; let us lay our lives before Him.


Throughout the preceding chapters of Job, Job reasoned and complained about the predicament he was in. He pleaded his cause before God and talked about the suffering he suffered from. It was so typical of us when we are struggling, we ask God for an answer, for an explanation.

And Job got his answer. God asked Job where was he when He made the world, or where was he when He did all the wondrous things - dividing the watercourse, causing rain to pour, and even giving strength to all creatures. With everything that God did, Job was silenced. All Job could do was close his mouth and humble himself before God.

In everything we are in, let us remember to give God the glory and praise. Let us keep the song of Horatio Spafford in our hearts, "it is well with my soul" for God is in control.

2 Chronicles 30:9

For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him. 

Today's Thought: God is always willing to accept and embrace those who come unto Him with a humble heart.



In His omniscience God knows that one day man will turn away from Him. Before God created the world, He knew that Adam would fall, that Israel would fail Him, but God continued on. And because of God's unfailing and everlasting love, He did not just create the world, the sinful man, but He also designed a plan on how to rescue man. For me, it is the grandest expression of love.

As Christians, we are only trying to grow through God's grace, but we will still fail. And in our failure, there is a promise of God - that He will accept us. There is only one requirement to this promise - if we will turn again unto the Lord. In all our failures, we only need to come unto God as we are, no conditions, no pretension, no self righteousness. Just come.

The good thing about God is His promise of conditionally accepting us. Why? Because this is the nature of God. He is a gracious and merciful God.

Psalm78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 

Today's Thought: God is of tender mercies and slow to wrath, but do not provoke him to anger.



One of God's attribute is his longsuffering and slow to wrath. Because God is a God of compassion and mercies, He is also patient and slow to wrath. A forgiving God who always provides chances to His children. In fact, it is because of His tender mercies and His unfailing compassion that we are not consumed.

However, let us not tempt the Lord and provoke Him to anger. The nation of Israel had been provided by the Lord with manna during the wilderness journey. They saw the wondrous things God did - the crossing of the Red Sea, the pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night, water gushing from stones, and even the wonderful provisions. God recounted all the good things He did for His people, but God also lamented how they provoked Him to anger.

When we provoke God to anger by forgetting His commandments and serving other gods - physical or abstract - in our hearts, do we expect to stand before the wrath of God? After they provoked God to anger, "the fire consumed their young men."

Revelation 14:12

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. 

Today's Thought: Serving the Lord is a long road to travel.


Foxe's Book of Martyrs is filled with accounts on how Christians of long ago endured pain and hardships as they serve God. It was not an easy road for them as they suffered persecution and even death. But they steadfastly continued in the commands of God and the faith of Jesus.

Christian service is not a holiday in the beach or a walk at the park. It is a life to be endured with joy and patience. You are going to fight against yourself and to die daily in suppressing the flesh wherein you dwell. You are going to fight the wiles of the devil seeking to devour you. You are going to be steadfast as others mock and speak of all manners of evil against you. This is the real Christian service.

But through all these, there is the promise of joy, the promise of companionship, and the promise of heaven. God rewards the service done unto Him for they are they not in vain.