Presented to River Street Cafe, 03 March 2017
Read Daniel 5:5-6, 26-28
This
warning to the Chaldeans shouldn’t be seen as spiteful, spurious, or surprising.
Some have said warning is too little too late but the truth is the whole book
of Daniel to this point has been about God giving them every encouragement, to
turn to him and be saved. Chapter 1, after using King Nebuchadnezzar and the
Chaldeans to remove Judah from the land, God sends them top advisors who are
set apart as holy. Chapter 2, God through Daniel reveals and interprets the
prophetic dream that He has given the king. Chapter 3, God shows the king
through Shadrack, Meshack, Abendego, and the fiery furnace that God alone is worthy
of worship and in Chapter 4, when Nebuchadnezzar becomes so full of himself as
to believe that what has been accomplished through him was actually
accomplished by him, the Lord extends him grace, mercy, and opportunity
to be humble, submit to the Lord and experience forgiveness and salvation.
Just
like God, time and time again, offered salvation to the Chaldeans here, He
earlier repeatedly offered salvation to Judah before removing them, and even
before that He gave 400 years notice to the Amorites before removing them from
the land (cf. Gen 15).
God today is giving
us the same warnings. God offers that same salvation to us. God loves you even
as much as he loves the Chaldeans, the Amorites, the Israelites, and the Judeans.
If we are living outside of His Salvation in some way it is not too late. Just
like He offered the others salvation, so too with us today. If there is any way
that we have been weighed and found wanting, I invite us to bring that to the
Lord. If we are here today, it is not too late to read the writing God has
written on the wall of our lives, to read it, heed it, and live out that
glorious salvation here, now, and forever. All we need to do is open our eyes,
lift our hearts to the Lord and experience His Glorious Salvation.
In what ways has
God been writing about His Salvation on the walls in our lives and encouraging
us to follow Him?
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