When we give our lives to GOD, His hand, directs our steps. This is not to say that trials and tribulations are absent in the lives of believers. GOD shows us favor and takes what was meant to harm us and turns it to our good and the good of His Church!
The Old Testament tells us that Isaiah prophesied to king Hezekiah about a day when the Babylonians would attack and capture Jerusalem, taking some of the sons of Israel to be made saris in the royal courts (2 Kgs 20:16–18). That prophecy was fulfilled in Daniel’s day.
Daniel was likely betrothed to a woman, but before he became eligible for marriage, he was castrated. In Dan 1:3, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah (known by the Babylonian names Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego) were put under the care of Ashpenaz, the chief of the saris. Despite this devastating turn of events, Daniel possessed an unwavering faith in God. In Ezek 14:14–16, he stands with Noah and Job as the three men God commended for their righteousness. Daniel obeyed God in matters from dietary cleanliness to daily worship, and he proclaimed to everyone—at great peril—that God is above all. Booher, C. (2012, 2016). Eunuchs in the Bible. In Faithlife Study Bible. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
Daniel 1:9 (NKJV)
9 Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs.
Genesis 39:21 (NKJV)
21 But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
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