Daniel 1-2

(March 13, 2015)

                The test that Daniel created was one that we should be prepared to engage in throughout our lives.  We can look at the commandments of God, and look also at those things that we think will bring us happiness (perhaps things we merely want to do, but perhaps also things that we are wrongfully doing now).  We should then engage in an experiment. 

                We sin because we want something, and that thing we want is usually happiness and a feeling of love.  We should call upon the Lord and make a commitment to Him to follow His commandments (giving up or continuing to forebear from disobedience) and contrast the happiness we feel through that obedience with the unhappiness and isolation that our sins create within us.  To adopt the symbols of Daniel, the meat may appear to bring us that health that we are looking for, but after eating the pulse and honestly looking at the result we can train ourselves to recognize that obedience to the commandments of God brings happiness (and no other way).