“Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.” Daniel 4:37
June 6, 2023
“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the kings horses and all the kings men couldn’t put Dumpty together again.” This old English nursery rhyme could very well be speaking of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon. He was so full of himself he took air time on Babylon TV to declare, “Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty” (Dan. 4:30). God taught the self-inflated king a lesson by afflicting him with insanity. He got humbled.
As Tony Evans has said, “Because even though the king was over a great kingdom, there was Someone who was still over him: God.” Leaders throughout our land would do well to take a lesson from a king who got the swell-head. His pride brought him down. Civic leaders can learn the hard way and suffer the consequences of thinking they can build a great society without God’s moral law. We need more men and women who will step into the political realm acknowledging their need for God and lead with honesty, humility, defenders of the truth, and committed to the highest ethical standards. When truth and integrity die, our society will die. Are we hearing the funeral dirge?
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“If we fill our hearts with anything besides the God of the universe, we find that we are over fed but undernourished.” Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.