Contemplative Bible Reading

Daniel 4:34-35 (New International Version 2011)

³⁴ At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever.

His dominion is an eternal dominion;
his kingdom endures from generation to generation.
³⁵ All the peoples of the earth
are regarded as nothing.
He does as he pleases
with the powers of heaven
and the peoples of the earth.
No one can hold back his hand
or say to him: “What have you done?”

Nebuchadnezzar has regained his mind after seven years of wandering about as a mad man. The verses above are his proclamation from those years. He says that the LORD rules the world and all its peoples.

Can rulers today make the same statement? Have we become more sophisticated these days? I pray not.