I just completed reading through Iain Duguid’s volume on Daniel in the Reformed Expository Commentary series as part of my personal worship.  You can find the book here.  Duguid embodies what I consider to be the ideal preacher and commentator.  The series is excellent on the whole and Duguid may be the best of the contributors.  His treatment of Daniel is both redemptive historical and applicatory.  There is no pitting the one over against the other.

Discussing trials which Christians face in this fallen world, Duguid says,

In the same way, our heavenly Father brings trials into our lives and exposes our brokenness in a variety of ways for exactly the right period of time.  He knows what challenges are necessary to move his work forward in our hearts, and for how long they need to be applied (p. 217).

He notes further,

The day is coming when Jesus Christ will ride out to conquer and to recreate, a day when the kingdom of this world will become the kingdom of our God and of his Christ (Rev. 11:15).  In the meantime, our task as martyrs is simply to testify to the Lord’s greatness and grace by our words and by our sufferings (p. 223).

There is much spiritual food in this commentary.  One can find similarly useful instruction in his other books which can be found here, here, here, here, here, and here.  I am so thankful that the Lord has gifted his church with godly and learned (though fallible) pastors and teachers.