The Lion's Den: Christ is Enough

Daniel 6, the passage of Daniel in the lion's den, is well known to most Christians.
Right now, instead of focusing on him in the Lion's den I wanted to look more at his responses beforehand. Three times a day he would open his windows to Jerusalem and pray. This was his time for seeking God.

When life hit him hard (the other wise-men trapped him through the law passed), he continued in his pursuit of God.

Daniel believed something very crucial here: God is enough

God is truly and actually all we need. That was his firm understanding.

And if Christ is all we need, then anything else but simply God Himself is an added blessing.

Family, friends, finance, and any other blessings, all of that is not necessary.

By saying, "I am enough," God is saying that we were designed to be able to live even if we only have Him.

Now, God gives us all of that other stuff because He wants to bless us. But, the point is that He is all we need.

Daniel understood this. And God was enough for Him.

We don't see his three friends in this passage coming and patting him on the back saying, "It'll be okay," and so on.

No, all Daniel had was God. Yet that was enough.

So the point of him going into the lion's den wasn't to show his courage or trust. No, it was revealing that in every step Daniel knew that God was enough and in that, that God can overcome.

So if that understanding is had (that Christ is enough), then being in a lion's den, standing before kings, being alone, any problem we face really, quickly loses it's power because a rescue isn't based upon our courage but God being enough

And He is.