A Reservation to Dine With the Beasts

King Nebuchadnezzar did some awful things and was proud of his awful accomplishments.

The Lord stripped him of that pride in the most embarrassing and demeaning way. 

The source--the kingdom that he'd built through ruthlessness and cruelty--of his arrogance and pride was taken away from him. The Lord stripped him of his sanity and made him live with the beasts of the field for 7 years. This prideful and awful man ate grass like oxen and looked like a beast himself.

What he didn't know was you can do whatever you think you're big enough and bad enough to do, thinking you're "winning" and are untouchable but there is One greater who sits high and looks low. One Word from Him can instantly topple man-made kingdoms and restore that which was taken.

There are consequences when we willingly put our hope in false gods and clay rulers/kings. Israel was in exile 70 years! The number coincides with the number of violations the people of Judah committed against God's command regarding the land. 

There's a way out. Circumstances/events are driving us there anyway...

2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Just keepin' it real...

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