Honoring God

Today’s prayer time lead me to the book of Daniel, chapter 5. This chapter talks about King Belshazzar. He was having a banquet with noblemen from his kingdom and he had asked that they bring out gold and silver cups taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem. He, his noblemen and concubines drank from the cups.

During the party there appeared a hand which wrote down a message on the wall where the king could see it. No one could read it until the Queen Mother told the King of a man named Daniel.

Daniel read the writing and told the King about the message.

To cut a long story short, the gist of the message was that God was angry that the King disrespected him. The passage that stood out to me from the whole chapter is this:

bq. “But you did not honor the God who determines whether you live or die and who controls everything you do.”

Sometimes and I’m guilty of this as well, people tend to forget who the true God is. Instead we worship other things such as people, money, power, etc. While these things might be powerful in our Earthly world, they’re nothing compared to the awesome power of God.

Man to a certain extent controls his own destiny but God controls it completely.

People ask why certain things happen in the world, why God allows such events to happen. I’ve always believed that God gave man free will to do as he pleases. It’s sort of a test to see how well man responds to God’s teachings. The other things such as natural disasters, etc are events that happen as a result of the world God created for us.

Honoring God is important. We should never forget who has total control over our lives. I still find it a little hard to surrender completely. A big part of me still believes that my life is a result of what I make out of it. The actions I do, determine the outcome. Yet there are a lot of things that have happened which I knew were not of my doing but resulted in great things.

I am reminded today that all things I do and all things I accomplish is a result of God’s support. I should honor him for that.

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