Whole Again

Broken things are often discarded but few things around here get tossed – Mr. Bill is the original fixer upper of otherwise trashable things.  From the roof of his palace, King Nebuchadnezzar looked out over his kingdom and said, “Is not this the great Babylon that I have built as the royal residence and seat of government by the might of my power and for the honor and glory of my majesty.” (Daniel 4:30).  This is a classic example of "Hey, ya’ll, look what I did.”  From there, things began to deteriorate for the king.  Neither do they go-well for us when we glory in ourselves, the work of our own hands.  God’s reality check for the king went like this: “While the words were still in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, ‘O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you.’” (V.31).  It's safe to say, the king was in a broken state for the next seven years, but God did not leave him that way. Verse 34 says, “I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding and the right use of my mind returned to me; and I blessed the Most High [God] and I praised and honored and glorified Him Who lives forever, Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion; and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.” It is a hard lesson: God shares His Sovereignty (supremacy) with no one! From King Nebuchadnezzar’s life we see how God makes whole things broken. He Who lives forever – the Most High God – longs to fix the our brokenness.  Give Him the pieces and be whole again.