I find it interesting that Daniel chose to keep his worries to himself. Why would he do that, is that what we are told to do? If you are being bullied at school does God want you to keep it to yourself? If you are finding college hard, and falling behind with your work, does God say keep your head down, shut up, and carry on. I’m not sure that that is the example that Jesus gave us. If you look at the way Jesus worked he had hundreds of followers, but he surrounded himself with twelve close mates and even within these twelve he had one or two very close mates. Is this an example of keeping things to yourself? No it’s not, is it. If we are to follow this example then we to might want to go out of our way to find some close mates who we can talk to and be honest with. This might be a group a school or college, or maybe a group at church. It needs to be group of people who can challenge us and a group we can tell our concerns to knowing that they will keep it to themselves. For some of us this is really easy and we love making friends and hanging around with people. But are we able to know who are the people we can trust? For others of us it’s hard to make friends and we will have to really try to get to know just a couple of people. However once we make friends we know we can trust them. Either way keeping things to yourself doesn’t seem to be an option for a Christian that wants to move on in their relationship with God. Daniel has hit a spot in his life when he could do with a small group of friends to help, what happens to you when you need that Christian advice from friends? I pray that you would know where to go.
