Let's not forget who God is.

This is kind of a weird entry. So I was reading Daniel and in chapter 5 some thing happen that really got my attention. The first thing that happend in the first part of chapter 5. So this new king Belshazzar comes on the scene, he's the son of king Neb, and is having this party. During this party he get's this bright idea to get the silver and golden goblets that his dad king Neb took from the temple in Jerusalem and decided it would be a great idea to get his drink on with these sacred items. To make matters worse when he took the silver and golden goblets that were in the temple of the Lord instead of thanking the God who they were for he started to thank the gods of silver and gold. Talk about spiting in God's face. Talk about not being the smartest guy, but what the difference between us and him? We might say that we would never do that, but don't we do things just as bad? I look at the times I've sinned perfectly knowing that God told me not to do this but I did it anyways. When we do things like this we are underminding God's authority. I couldn't tell you what was going through the king's head but I believe it was something like this; God's not going to do anything because it's not like it's that bad. Or maybe even something to the likes of; if he was going to punish me for this he would have already done it by now. Well as we read along in the story we see that a human hand appears and writes on the wall. (You should read and see what happends next)
We see that in this story that the king underminds God and then God comes through and brings the hammer. What I took from this is that we need to be careful to make sure that we aren't underminding what the Lord is telling us to do. I know we have free will to do what we want but that doesn't mean that we should just do what we want. The temptation for giving in to what we want can easily be down played because we don't see God's punishment right away or it might not be as bad as we thought it would be. How about we learn from this not so bright king. Oh just to fill you in with what happend to this king, he was slain.
I'm not here to say that if you don't obey God you're going to die. But I just want us to remember who our God is.Our God is a God of love but that doesn't mean that he wont bring the thunder when needed. I pray that we wouldn't be scared of God now but we would have that healthy fear so we would make a conscious choice to obey God and never undermind his authority.