Category: Quote of the Day

A father had given his son a globe map of the world. One night he slipped into the boy’s room to look up a spot on the globe. The little fellow woke up and asked, “What are you doing with my world?” Plenty of youngsters might well ask us adults what we have done with their world. Teenagers did not create this world situation today – they inherited it. What have we oldsters done with their world?

The Hebrew children in Babylon did not sound a trumpet or put on a show to declare their nonconformity. They simply remained standing when everybody else knelt before Nebuchadnezzar’s image. That made them conspicuous enough! All you have to do is be faithful to God, and when everybody else is on his knees before the gods that be, just do as you’ve been doing and you will stand out without even trying. Daniel didn’t make a speech or call a news conference or write a statement defying the decree of Darius. He simply went about his devotions “as aforetime.”