Tonight while driving home from Luke's parent's home we watched Daniel and the Lion's Den.
Raegan asked, "Why couldn't the King just feed the lions a lot so they wouldn't eat Daniel?"
I answered, "Because that would be cheating and he had to keep the law. Even a King has to keep the laws."
This got me thinking about Heavenly Father and how even He is bound by laws. I began thinking about Daniel and how he is like us. He broke a law and according to the law, he must be cast into the lion's den. Even the King was bound by this law and could not change it though he loved Daniel greatly. We, like Daniel, have also broken the law and are fallen, and there are consequences. Daniel called upon The God of Israel, who is Christ the Lord. An angel of God intervened and saved Daniel from the horrible death and destruction that awaited him in the lion's den. If we call upon Christ and repent and try to keep the commandments, He too will intervene and save us from the terrible spiritual death that would be our fate were it not for His sacrifice which satisfied the law. And just like Daniel, when we are made clean by the Atonement of Christ, we will then return to the King, our Father in Heaven.
