Know In Whose Hand Is Your Life Breath

November 27, 2019

From today’s reading…

But the God in whose hand is your life breath

and the whole course of your life, you did not glorify.

By him were the wrist and hand sent, and the writing set down.”

Kids these days.

It’s frustrating to see people make the same mistakes those before them made because they ignored history.

It’s debilitating to see it happen to your kids despite your best efforts to educate, form, and guide them to avoid the mistakes you’ve made and to capitalize on your successes.

King Belshazzar was the son of Nebuchadnezzar, yet he did not know who Daniel was and how Daniel foretold the good and the bad that awaited his father.

Because of the arrogance and brashness of Belshazzar, his reign was brought to a brutal and untimely end, which Daniel also prophesied.

This is the writing that was inscribed:

MENE, TEKEL, and PERES.

These words mean:

MENE, God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it;

TEKEL, you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;

PERES, your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Be wise. Learn from your parents, your elders, and even your peers. To ensure Mene, Tekel, and Peres are not written on the walls of your home,…

Stay the course.Keep the faith.Endure.