PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Daniel 5-6
What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?
“For he is the living God and he endures forever.” (Daniel 6:26)
Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar and Darius each needed to learn the same lesson.
There is only one God over all things and people – our loving Creator.
This is a lesson we all need to learn, and God keeps reminding us too.
We may not actually think of ourselves as gods, but we still try to act that way.
As if we are the masters of our lives, as if we can decide right from wrong.
As if we hold the power of life and death, as if we are accountable to no one.
The problem is, life has a way of showing us that this is not true.
Try as we might, we cannot manage life or creation or human nature.
Rulers and nations rise up for a time, but eventually they crumble.
Our world without God is not getting better and better.
Are you trying to do life without God, or keeping God at a distance?
God does not go away so easily, and life does not work so well without God.
These stories from Daniel all have the same message: acknowledge God!
“Honor the God who holds in His hand your life and all your ways.” (Daniel 5:23)
PRAYER
Lord, thank you for reconnecting us to God. May I never forget that my life only works, when it works with you!
King Belshazzar forgot the lessons learned by his Father so God judged him: “mene, mene, tekel, parsin” and his life and reign was taken from him. Darius takes over and is tricked into a plan that forces people to worship him and he learns that it was a set up to implicate Daniel – whom the King knew would not forgo serving his God. “May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!” I too must know that the days of my life are numbered, that I am judged and that one day all that I have now will go to someone else – but I also know that my trust is in a faithful Saviour who will save me from the trickery of Satan and the hungry lions of life. Lord help me to serve faithfully in Jesus name!