It’s one of the most vivid word pictures in the Bible — the hand of God writing on the wall of King Belshazzar’s royal dining court.
It’s recorded in Daniel 5 and is a fascinating description of pride’s blinding cost.
Even today, we are still culturally acquainted with a remnant of that story. How? Because of the common usage of the phrase, “Read the handwriting on the wall” that we’ve all said at one time or another.
There’s much to learn from this account, but I want to point only at one element in that story just now.
In verse 27, we find this message from God to King Belshazzar that was embedded into the cryptic, divine inscription:
“You have been weighed on the balances and have not measured up.”
The king was gripped with fear at this message deciphered for him by Daniel. And with good reason.
This prideful, blasphemous potentate was dead by the next morning because of an enemy attack on the city.
It’s a horrible thing to hear that we’ve failed to live as God wants and then to be destroyed.
God doesn’t want this for anybody, 2 Peter 3:9 says.
Please examine honestly and humbly your life to see if it is godly according to biblical standards, not your own. I need to do the same.
For we both want to hear the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant. Now enter into your rest.”
As we embrace and live for Christ, we”ll never have to worry about the scales saying that our lives were frauds that didn’t measure up to the expectations of God.
As always, I love you
Martin
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