Then comes a recollection of the deliverance from Egypt. The arguments and are now going to build up in this prayer.
Daniel argues based on God’s cause, his name. Today so many churches adopt worldly ways that people regard them with scorn. They become a reproach, an embarrassment to themselves, and to the cause of God. This is what happened to Jerusalem. But the promise must be kept. We may bring this argument to the Lord, and plead his own honour as a reason why he should answer our feeble prayer. We have nothing in ourselves that is any strong argument, but since he has chosen to link our welfare to his own glory, we may legitimately reason in this way with him. Indeed this is how we should make all our prayers. We ask what we do, for the Lord’s sake. We pray for lost souls, not for our credit, but for Lord’s sake: his glory in these dark days.