Living in Babylon

I had a double whammy this week. A good one. While in the middle of a study on the book of Daniel, I came across a movie entitled “Time Changer.”

The movie wasn’t the most well-produced one I’ve seen. But it was spot-on in its context. Its theme reinforced what I had been studying in the first half of Daniel . . . living life with integrity in a corrupt culture.

In the book of Daniel, I was witnessing the integrity of a few young Hebrew captives living in Babylon, purported to be the richest and most beautiful kingdom of its day. Daniel, Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego could have assimilated into this wondrous new culture, like many other captured Hebrews. But they resisted the temptations and remembered their one true God. It came at a cost.

Remember Daniel thrown to the hungry lions, and the other three thrown into a…