Read: Daniel 4:1-37; 2 Peter 1:1-21; Psalm 119:97-112; Proverbs 28:17-18
The story of Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity is amazing. God took this man’s mind and reduced him to an animal to humble him to acknowledge that God was Lord over all the heavens and the earth. God will go to great lengths to let us come to the end of ourselves. Some people have to lose years of their lives to drugs, alcohol, a bad marriage, a wrong occupation or a prison of unforgiveness just to come to that same conclusion.
The answer to how to avoid falling into the pride that Nebuchadnezzar did is in our reading from Second Peter. Peter tells us that God’s power gives us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him. God has given us great promises that allow us to participate in God’s divine nature and escape the corruption of the world. Peter gives us a progression of maturity. It starts with faith as the foundation and then it adds goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness and brotherly kindness. He explains that if these qualities continue to grow in you they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of Jesus. The world will make us confused and insane but God gives us clearness and truth that we can walk in confidence and balance.
Lord help us to walk in forgiveness and love. Help us to have the mind of Christ today.
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