Trying is not enough Week 51, 2010

“Listen, I have tried to stand alone but it is impossible. You don’t understand where I work. Compromise is the rule of the day; no compromise: no progress.” You can’t be correct. Or are you telling me 1Co 10:13(GNB) is no longer true? Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out. “I don’t want to argue with you. If there is a way out I haven’t seen it, nor do I see any one succeeding.”
Would you know that God always reserves for himself a people who are faithful? It is written Daniel first had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean Dan 1:8(BBE) . This decision is noted before the intervention of Dan 1:9(ESV) And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs. You must first decide and seek to stand and you will see God step in. “Will you stop prejudging me? I tried, but I was refused. My supervisor strictly forbad me. Period. A number of Christians I know do it. What’s wrong with it? Is Okey not a member of your executive committee? Yet he does it.”
Daniel was also turned down by this captain. Unlike you he didn’t give up. He moved on to someone else until he got what he needed. Then Daniel said to the keeper in whose care the captain of the unsexed servants had put Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: Put your servants to the test for ten days Dan 1:11,12(BBE). Trying is not enough. Consider David when his brother sought to discourage him from fighting Goliath: Eliab should have taken him to Saul wouldn’t; no one believed in him but he simply refused to give up. He was but one man, in fact a boy. He turned to another man and asked him the same question, and every time he asked, he got the same answer. Some men heard what David had said, and they told Saul, who sent for him1Sa 17:30, 31(GNB). And blind Bartimaeus? He simply shouted louder…
“You won’t give up too, huh?” Not until the Daniel in you comes forth. Keep pushing, there’s a gap in the wall. Enter through it. He won't quit or give up until he brings justice everywhere on earth Isa 42:4(CEV)