Daniel is 4:37

“Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. ”

We all have a past. We all have had a time where we did not acknowledge Or even know God. We were living our life just to please ourselves. Doing everything thing we could find to do under the sun. But God has a way of waking us up, and causing us to bow a knee to him.

We call this transition by many names. I have heard ‘hitting bottom’, ‘God called my name’, ‘failure’, and ‘I tried everything, every thing failed so I tried God’. Call it what you may, the bottom line is God has a way to showing you who he is, and drawing your attention towards him.

Nothing that is good is achieved is done without God. There are many successful people who don’t know or acknowledge God. They achieve great success in their chosen field. Many may say they did it without God. But the truth is, just like Nebuchadnezzar, God’s blessing was upon them because the great tree of their success is there to provide sustenance for the people of God.

God is a master planner. He has a way of reigning in every heart that refuses to acknowledge him willingly. We see the fall and scandals of people everyday. God is doing what he has always done. Arranging things and situations where we run to him or fall. Nebuchadnezzar had the dream and Daniel gave him the interpretation. We call this a warning. But even with advance knowledge, Nebuchadnezzar never had the thought to change to avoid his fall. He thought his greatness would be enough protection.

But God is also faithful. He allowed Nebuchadnezzar to come back to his right mind. In Daniel 4:37, we see Nebuchadnezzar’s testimony, “Now, I praise and extol, and honor the King of heaven…” He says ‘now’ because prior to that he refused to do so. He believed that all he had accomplished was done on his own. He was glorying in his power as king. But God is the King of Kings. He will bring down every heart that is puffed up in pride. We all have been here at some time in the past.

We all have a ‘Now’ experience in our lives. We all have pasts and done foolish things. We have experienced failures and hopefully learned from them. Either way, we serve a God that transitioned us to ‘now’. And I am so glad he did. The alternative would be to continue in our foolishness, and miss heaven. Nothing is worth that.

Thank God for the Transition to ‘now’.