Be Still And Know

Daniel 4.27 NLT Daniel said, ‘King Nebuchadnezzar, please accept my advice. Stop sinning and do what is right. Break from your wicked past and be merciful to the poor. Perhaps then you will continue to prosper.’ Daniel was an incredibly courageous person, and here’s the proof! He was talking to one of the most powerful people who has ever walked this earth and giving him some staggeringly bad news. He was telling King Nebuchadnezzar that he was going to be driven away from human society and would live with wild animals where he would eat grass like a cow. This isn’t the sort of encouraging message that you would want to deliver to a powerful despot who was inclined to kill his opponents at a moment’s notice. And Daniel informed him that the king’s life would only improve when he had learnt his lesson. This was an incredibly tough message but Daniel knew that he had to be faithful to God and tell the king the truth. The result was amazing. Nebuchadnezzar suffered in all the ways that were prophesied and en