The Fear of the Lord is a Truning Point

Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way.
(Daniel 5:5-6)

In the Old Testament, the finger of God wrote the Ten Commandments on stone tablets and later inscribed a message of judgment on the plaster walls of Belshazzar’s palace. In the New Testament, the finger of Jesus wrote in the dirt in John 8:6.

Today we have God’s handwriting in Scripture. The very word Scripture comes from the Latin scriptum, meaning “to write.” All Scripture is inspired by God, and every word in God’s Word is God’s Word (2 Timothy 3:16).

President Abraham Lincoln came to that conclusion during the Civil War. He increasingly opened his Bible, frequently turning to Daniel and the other Old Testament prophets. He believed, as he told one group who presented him with a beautiful leather-bound Bible, that “this Great Book is the best gift God has given to man.”

If even wicked old Belshazzar trembled before this divine script, it’s important for all of us to revere, rely on, and obey every word from God, whether we are kings, presidents, cooks, housewives, plumbers, pastors, students, or servants.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
General Robert E. Lee

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