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The Writing Is On The Wall

This chapter reads like something out of a really good (or strange) science fiction novel. People drinking and worshipping idols, and then a giant hand appears and starts writing on the wall. And there is Daniel. Still humbled and still wanting his gifts to be used by God. Still refusing to see them as gifts to benefit only himself.

In verse twenty-three, Daniel proclaims that King Belshazzar still has not honored God, though his breath is held in God's very hand. Forget the fact that God can literally produce a hand to write on a wall or save three men from burning flames, He gets so much more personal than that. He holds us and sustains us, our very breath.

Let's don't get caught up in the strange-to-us bits of the story or in thinking about how awfully self-centered the King was. Let's take a moment to remember that the God whose hand holds our very breath is anxious for us to give Him glory. Where are we withholding it? Let's repent and turn our attention back to Him.

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