How Can We Sing the Lord’s Songs in Babylon?

How Can We Sing the Lord’s Songs in Babylon?

A helpful reminder that our generation is not the first to go up against this fallen world and our complete need to trust in God alone.

Daniel shows the exiles how to live joyfully and faithfully for God in Babylon. That is the book’s great lesson for us today. For we are exiles in Babylon as well. Peter begins and ends his first letter in this way: “Peter…To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion.…She who is at Babylon, who is likewise chosen, sends you greetings” (1 Pet. 1:1; 5:13). This world is Babylon—the world in rebellion against the Lord. It presses in on us constantly, trying to squeeze us into its mold.