“Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.”
Daniel 4:37 (NIV)
Could it be that we Christians can learn something from this pagan king?
It used to be that this king praised himself, exalted himself, glorified himself
but – “Now I praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven”
It used to be that this king was the highest form of justice in his land,
the sole determiner of what was right and just in all the land,
but now he knows- that the King of heaven is right and just in all His ways.
It used to be that this king walked in pride, but now he walks in humility before his God.
I called him a pagan king, but on the basis of his testimony in Daniel 4 it seems that this pagan has become a Christian.
Could it be that we modern Christians can learn something from an ancient Christian king’s testimony about how God deals with the ones He loves?
He breaks us and brings us low that we might truly worship the only One who deserves our praise.
The storm, the trouble, the hunger, the distress are tools of a loving God to bring us to the place where we can kiss His Son with sincerity.
He loves us enough to break us
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