DANIEL 5:5-6
In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on
the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his
hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.
Man is plagued with many fears, some of them odd. Mysophobia is fear of dirt. Hydrophobia
is fear of water: Nyctophobia is fear of darkness. Acrophobia is fear of high places.
Xenophobia is fear of strangers.
Claustrophobia is fear of confined places. Trtskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.
Unfortunately, many people who have learned to fear things that they probably shouldn’t
have never learned to fear God.

Belshazzar was one of those people. Whatever other fears he may have had, a fear of the God
of Israel was not one of them. In the midst of a great feast, the king, a grandson of
Nebuchadnezzar, ordered the gold and silver vessels taken from the temple in Jerusalem tobe
put on display.
With utter disregard for the sacred nature of these utensils, and with no concern for God,
Belshazzar profaned theIm by using them in his drunken revelryI. It was not until a hand
appeared and wrote on the palace wall of God’s judgment that this arrogant king began to
fear.
But by then it was too late. His fate was sealed. Many people today treat God flippantly.
They Use His name, in vain: They trample His standards of righteousness underfoot. They
flout their sin in His face.
They treat God’s people with disdain and contempt. Yet they show no fear. Only when it’s too
late for many of them will they realize what fools they’ve been. Be assured that one day
everyone will fear God.
The best course of action is to bow before Him in fear as Savior now so you don’t have to
bow before Him in fear as Judge later. The choice is yours. Choose wisely.
FEAR GOD NOW AND YOU WON’T HAVE TO FEAR GOD LATER.
WOODROW KROLL
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