God is a God of life. He made the earth to be inhabited by all sorts of living things from vegetation to fish to birds to creatures of all kinds. The pinnacle of His creation was humankind for which He planned a truly great blessing - life eternal! God is all about life, both of the body and of the soul.
Too often, we Christians tend to focus on the blessings of the next life and overlook the blessings promised in our daily walk with God. These blessings are given by our Lord to help us face the rigors of life with peace and joy, so as not to get distracted by the troubles in the world and fall into despair and even lose faith. God is with us and for us!
We humans are good at procrastinating. Whether it's something in our every day affairs or our spiritual lives, we delay in doing things which we know we need to do. Putting things off just keeps us mired in a place which we know we don't want to be. So, is today the day for you to make those life-altering changes? Is today the day for you to come back to Jesus? To be baptized? Is today the day Jesus appears in the sky?
Babylon was a very rich and imposing world power. When Daniel and the other captives were led there in chains, they faced many pressures to abandon their heritage and faith, and to conform to Babylonian culture. But Daniel and his three companions remained faithful, and God blessed them greatly. Today, Christians are living in their own "Babylon." Will you and I remain faithful?
