Hi Friends.. Greetings to you...
It was a morally dark night in Babylon. Darker than your workplace,
school, or community. King Belshazzar had willfully blasphemed God by
desecrating the sacred goblets looted from the temple in Jerusalem. Now
Babylon and Belshazzar were about to face God’s judgment.
Yet in the midst of this gross darkness shone the light of a single
witness: the prophet Daniel. Because of his reputation as a man with
“the Spirit of the Holy God” (Dan. 5:11), Daniel was summoned to
interpret the mystifying message on the wall.
Daniel could have softened God’s warning to give it a meaning the
king and his court would rather hear. He could have omitted the part
about judgment and death. But instead of muddling the message to please
the king, Daniel remained true to God. Standing alone before Belshazzar
and his drunken court, he boldly spoke the whole truth.
It took enormous courage for Daniel to do that, but the threat from
an earthly king was nothing compared to his allegiance to the King of
heaven. Daniel feared Belshazzar so little because he feared God so
much.
When we share Daniel’s heavenly perspective, we find that God gives us the courage to stand alone too.
Let us be courageous because the Holy Spirit is within us to guide us and face the daily challenges. So cheer up...God bless you..
Continue to pray for the unreached as we step towards the Cross.
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