Are you doing the king's business while doing the KING'S business? Daniel 7-12

Daniel 8:27 (NASBStr)

Then I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. Then I got up again and carried on the king’s business; but I was astounded at the vision, and there was none to explain it.

Daniel was a captive in a foreign land.  He was a man who wanted to go home but couldn't.    He was a man who wanted to serve God in Jerusalem, or Judea, or, anywhere in the the promise land and not here ... in Babylon.  But, God had Daniel right where He wanted him.   So, Daniel served God in the place God put him, without complaint.   He did what God asked him to do and was now the messenger for some of the most powerful prophecy in the Bible: The description of what the end looks like.    So, in this chapter and book of the Bible we have a picture of God's man, in God's place, giving us God's message.    YET, despite all this "vertical" relationship between Daniel and God, we see in the above verse, the remarkable aspect of Daniel's "horizontal" work:  The "King's Business."   It would be easy to focus on the true importance of Daniel's message in the vision and miss this nugget of affirmation of Daniel't "day job."   Paul had a tent ministry.   David was a shepherd.   Amos was a shepherd.  Joseph was a carpenter.   Lydia a merchant.   Moses a shepherd.   God expects us to be His person in His place for His plan communicating His passion.   But, while in that role, God DOES NOT remove us from the horizontal aspects of the world.  In fact, in Daniel 2:48 we read that Daniel was actually given the King's business as a result of serving God and carrying out God's message to the king at the time.   So, often in the fulfillment of God's plan, acting vertically, God deals with us and and blesses us horizontally for His glory.   A man with a heart for God is not removed from his contact, industry and responsibility toward man.   When God gives us the "king's business" we ought to take pride in what we are required to do.  Daniel could have, as a result of this heavy and complicated prophecy, simply formed a seminary and told the King God had a bigger job for him ... digesting and communicating to the believing world this prophecy.  But, he didn't.  He simply studied God's Word and continued doing what God had him do on the earth.   The king's business while he was actually dong the KING's Business.