Daniel had confidence in God that He would be acceptable to the king at the end of the ten-day trial period of just eating vegetables.
What does that look like from our perspective…to have confidence/trust in God?
The prophet Jeremiah wrote:
Blessed is the one who trusts in Adonai, whose confidence is in Adonai. For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, spreading out its roots by a stream. It has no fear when heat comes, but its leaves will be green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor depart from yielding fruit. (Jeremiah 17:7-8)
It does not fear the drought because its roots go deep down to the source of the water.
It does not fear the heat will turn its leaves brown because it is constantly flushed with living water.
And it will always produce fruit because its roots are rooted in the rich soil of the stream…drawing its nutrients from this rich source.
The application for us nearly jumps off the page…when we are rooted deep in God’s Word…
All the nutrients we need to grow are contained in His Word…His Word is the living water that keeps us from drying up spiritually…
And it is because we are deeply planted in His Word…we can bear fruit even when the heat of trials in our lives gets turned up.
Listen…I cannot stress this enough; we must put our trust in God and not lean on our own understanding.
We belong to our Lord…He purchased our freedom at a great price…and because we belong to Him…
No matter how good we take care of ourselves (and we should), no matter how cautious we are (and we should be to a certain extent) …
If God wants us home…He will call us home and no matter how many masks you wear or how many vaccines you receive, no matter how much you social distance…
When He wants us home…we are going home and not one second before.
To lean on God…and not on our own understanding is to trust in God even when we cannot comprehend what He is doing.