A Broken and a contrite heart, the Lord will not despise.
He resists the proud, but gives grace.
Gives Grace to whom?
Those who think they stand take heed, lest they fall. Gives grace to those who have a broken and a contrite heart. The Lord despises self satisfaction.
He walked, dear Daniel through that horrifying life of despicable interaction with the Babylonians on every side.
Down to the end, they continued to remind him that he was a slave and not a full social member of their system.
It was abhorrent what other cultures did to subjugate the people that they had taken into captivity. God showed Daniel that He had a purpose. God inhabited the praises of those Hebrew boys and gave them favor comparable to the loss of their families and their lives and their personal pride.
God had mercy for years and with very much of the nonsense that those people had done. When He had enough, He had enough. It is amazing that the issue to them was always pride. He dealt with a lot of their mess without judging them. But when it got to the breaking point. He came Himself to deliver his people. His mighty hand saved the Hebrew boys. He came in person to deliver them. From the time of the fiery furnace. From the proud, pompous speech of Nebby and the taking of the Holy vessels for their wicked party. God Himself came to deliver. He owned them, because they had owned Him.
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