I think sometimes that is what God thinks about us. He performs this amazing work in our lives day in and day out and we simply forget or we just don't understand what is happening. If that is you, don't worry, it's you, it's me, it's all of us.
God is always at work and we get caught up in the business of our own lives. For example, this weekend. It was Fall Break, and I had a lot of things to do, I didn't have time to sit down and read or blog until tonight. I was busy with what I had to do. It's not a bad thing, it's life.
Where does this idea come from? In Daniel chapter 5, King Belshazzar, son of King Nebuchadnezzar had made a great feast for a thousand. At this feast, the king was celebrating by drinking wine from gold and silver vessels that were his fathers. They were drinking wine and praising the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Basically, they were having a huge party for all of the wrong reasons.
Remember what King Nebuchadnezzar had to go through? His son was there for the entire thing and you would think that he got the message. Well he didn't...
At the feast, a hand appeared on the wall and had written something on. Nobody who was there was able to interpret it. The King said that he would reward whoever would interpret the message. Again, the magicians, enchanters, and anyone else who was wise tried, but they couldn't do it. Finally, the queen remembered Daniel, and the King had Daniel interpret the writing.
When Daniel was interpreting the dream to the king, he was telling the king everything that his father had experienced in the first four chapters of Daniel. In short, Daniel had explained how Nebuchadnezzar had humbled himself and how his son had not yet humbled his heart.
After everything he saw his father experience he didn't learn anything from it.
While this was all happening, the hand was sent and the writing was inscribed. And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end
TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting
PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians
That very night Belshazzar was killed and Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
What was written down is what came true. If King Belshazzar would've learned the same lesson his father had learned, this all might have not happened. Does it really have to be spelled out for you?
What is God teaching you right now in your life, what are you learning, and how are you growing? I challenge you to not get to that point where it has to be written down for you. Write it down yourself! Journal, take notes, do whatever you have to do so you learn it the first time.
When someone says: "Does it really have to be spelled out for you?" it is not a good thing, Belshazzar had to have it written down for him and he got killed that night. That most likely won't happen to you, but you never know what God might do to get your attention.
Learn your lessons.
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