You would think that Nebuchadnezzar’s son would have learned the truth his father learned. He knew about his father eating grass. Yet he had the audacity to bring the gold vessels from God’s house, and use them in his drunken party.

If you remember, the finger of a man’s hand began writing on the wall. Daniel 5:20 says of his father, “When his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.”

Verse 23 says, “…you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.” I think my breath always sucks in (involuntarily) when I read this passage. May the Lord’s mercy right now be on those who continually oppose Him.