King Darius' Pride in the Book of Daniel

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King Darius' Pride in the Book of Daniel

Have you ever found yourself being a little too proud of your

accomplishments? I know, being a performer in a Christian singing group,

that it is easy to think that I am all that and a bag of chips. I usually get

punished or humiliated by God in some way. God works funny like that. It

seems that every time I think that I performed well someone tells me that

our performance was not all that it was cracked up to be. This is

extremely humbling and when looked back upon embarrassing.

King Darius in Daniel chapter six was full of himself. His administrators

conned him into writing a law that said that everyone had to worship the

King and no one else. The King thought that this was a very good idea

since he was the one that everyone would be worshipping; so he signed

the law. This was such a good idea, he was thinking, until one of the

administrators tricked him into writing the law. After writing the law one of

his administrators told him that Daniel, one of the Kings most trusted

administrators, was praying three times a day to the God of Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob. When King Darius realized what had to be done, (that

Daniel was going to be thrown into the lions den) he mourned for an

entire day. After finding no possible solution Darius gave the order to

throw Daniel into the lions den. As the story goes, Daniel comes out of the

den untouched and the king praised the God of Daniel. He then made a

new decree saying that everyone in the kingdom should tremble with

fear before the God of Daniel.

King Darius is a lot like myself. He was very quick to be prideful and it

caused much grief, but in the end God intervened. I find that when I feel

too proud something bad happens and I don't mourn, but I am

saddened by the bad that has happened. I always know that in the end

God will change my heart and I hope that my own selfish nature will not

outweigh my love for my God. It is amazing to me that God knows the

particular ways to shoot down your pride. It does not matter if you are a

believer or not, God knows just how to push your buttons if he needs to do

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