Scripture Verses that Caught My Attention Today: Daniel 2:5-6 The king answered the Chaldeans, “This is a public decree: if you do not tell me both the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins. 6 But if you do tell me the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore tell me the dream and its interpretation.”
Observation: Just because people are in power doesn’t necessarily mean they are wise. The king was making an impossible request that, aside from divine intervention through Daniel, would have assured widespread destruction.
Application: I shudder to think of all the destruction that has been done in the world through the ages at the whims of people in power making foolish decrees. Sometimes this foolishness is well-intentioned. Other times it’s just plain childish or even hateful. Either way, real lives are at stake.
On this day those of us who live in the United States are especially mindful of what seemed to many of us to be a childish and/or hateful act in the form of hijacking airliners and crashing them into strategic points of interest at the cost of many lives. There are also those who feel that the way in which our government responded to those acts of terrorism were horrific in their own way and also came at the cost of many lives.
Whatever the case may be, the fact remains that we live in a broken world filled with broken people. All of us share in that dilemma because, however wise or foolish we may be, each of us is still broken at some level. In light of that fact, my prayer is simply that God might somehow minimize the damage we do in our foolishness (however well-intended) and eventually bring about the total healing and restoration so desperately needed by all.
Prayer: Lord, you’ve heard my prayer. Now help me to hear yours. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
(Readings today included: Daniel 1-2, Revelation 16)
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