Fabulous Friday

I'm glad it's Friday that means the work week is done! Well not for everyone, sorry Michael :( Anyways here's another way that we can have a fabulous Friday and just like the other things I've written about we could have just more then a fabulous Friday we can have fabulous days. So I'm doing a personal study in Daniel and this is where this entry is coming from. So in chapter 1 Daniel has just been taken into captivity and is on his way to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar would take all the good looking and smart people to Babylon and would make them serve him as men of wisdom and knowledge. When Daniel arrived they changed his name to Belteshazzar and would make him eat the food and drink the wine that the king would eat and drink. Nebuchadnezzar did this because he was trying to change Daniel and everything he use to be which included the God he served. So you might be thinking to yourself what's so bad about his situation? He get's to be in the kings court and eat what they called "royal foods", not so bad huh?
The thing that we get to take from Daniel's account is as the rest of the chapter continues Daniel refuses to eat the "royal foods". The footnotes says he did this because the food that they were eating was "unclean" which means that it was what God told them not to eat. He wasn't trying to make a scene he was just Honoring his God, the One True God. What spoke to me was that in this chapter we don't see Daniel trying to fight from being in captivity or resisting his name change. I saw a man who knew that where he was is where he had to be for this time. Also the most important thing is he had already made up his mind that no matter what he faces he is going to serve the God of Israel. At the end of the chapter we see him being blessed for his choice to follow the Lord.
So what I think we should do is what Daniel did, make up our minds to who we are going to serve. How this spoke to me was that Daniel recognized that no matter what he would face he knew who and where to turn to, the Living God. So let's start off our Friday like this, forget that let's start off everyday like this; let's make the first thing we do as soon as we wake up, make a choice who we are going to live our day for. I believe with all my heart that if we make that our first thing we do then our days will be blessed. The way I see it is if I make my day all about the Lord then when I face a rough spot I can think to myself that I'm living today for the Lord and that will force me to keep moving foward. Once again I know it's not easy but just as the Lord honored Daniel I know he will honor us.
So my prayer for us today is that we chose to live today and everyday for the Lord. I pray that we would always have on our minds that our days are not about us but they are for the Lord and for whatever he asks of us.