We are facing the same challenges Daniel faced. We can’t bury our heads and pretend we’re not. We’re to face them knowing that God is still on the throne.
What inspires your calling, drives your compulsions, shapes your choice of companions, and fills your conversations? Whatever, or whoever, that is , it is either God or a god to us.
We all have something in our lives that drives us. It’s our “raison d’être”, our life’s purpose. Whatever “it” is, it moulds our actions, reactions, and interactions.
What we put into our minds will come out, one way or another. It is time to silence the world’s voices so that God, not the world, INFORMS us.
Since 1543, when it was conferred on Henry VIII by the Parliament of England, every English (later British) sovereign has held the title “Defender of the Faith”, (except Mary I, a Catholic), and by Each new sovereign reinforces this at their coronation. At Charles III’s, he was handed a Bible with these words: Sir, to…