Motivated by love and desire to serve God.

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When the desire to honor God develops in us, He will simply guide us clearly and specifically on the path, help us through life's challenges.

8 And Daniel resolved in his heart not to defile himself with the portion of the king's food, nor with the wine that he drank; He therefore asked the chief eunuch not to force him to defile himself. 9 And God placed Daniel in favor and good will with the chief of the eunuchs; 10 And the chief eunuch said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who appointed your food and your drink; Because as soon as he sees your faces paler than those of the boys who are similar to you, you will condemn my head to the king. 11 Then Daniel said to Melsar, who was appointed chief eunuch over Daniel, Ananias, Mishael, and Azariah, 12 Please test your servants for ten days, and give us vegetables to eat and water to drink. . 13 Then compare our faces with the faces of the boys who eat the king's portion of food, and then do to your servants as you see. 14 So he agreed with them in this, and tried with them for ten days. 15 And at the end of the ten days their faces seemed better and more robust than those of the other boys who ate the king's portion of the food. 16 So Melsar took their portion of food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.

Daniel 1:8-16

We can read chapter one of Daniel in full and thus have a better overview, Daniel lived as a captive by the Babylonians but still decided in his heart not to transgress the laws of God, this is what we see And we take As an example, the interesting thing is to know what motivated Daniel to fulfill what he had promised?

First of all, Daniel's devotion to God allowed Daniel to make the determination not to disobey God and much less contaminate himself with what the king offered him. This means that Daniel decided to dedicate himself to God and separate himself to obey, love and worship only God. We can achieve this when we dedicate all our attention to Christ, when we look at the work of the cross and the result that today we can enjoy. , this allows our hearts to overflow with joy and above all gratitude, motivating us to remain firm on the path and in the decision to serve God.

Because of this decision to turn away to serve only God we see Daniel's firm determination, if he had otherwise refused to eat the king's food perhaps he would have simply been killed. Daniel was clear about the path and direction he wanted to follow, the Lord gave wisdom to both him and his friends and in this way they were able to carry out a plan B, not only did they think and plan, they also carried out that plan . We see throughout the story that there were no claims or demands on the part of Daniel and his friends towards God, there were no strange arguments, his behavior exalted his trust in God and above all his dependence on what God would do.

How can we keep our gaze on Christ daily? Maybe sometimes we wait for some spell or magical answer but what we have to do is simple, we must meditate daily on the word of God and pray to God, in this way we keep our gaze and our senses in Christ, our ears are attentive to the voice of the father and we will be extremely motivated to follow his plans for us. In this way we develop the capacity for commitment in everything that God has for us, just as Daniel had done.

We want to have the results that Daniel had, now our part is to have a life of devotion to God like the one Daniel had. Are you determined to start right now?