Amnesia

Amnesia

Bible: Daniel 4:28-37

My understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High (V.34 NKJV).

Police rescued a woman with an Australian accent who couldn’t remember who she was. Because she was suffering from amnesia and had no ID on her, she couldn’t tell them her
name or where she was from. The doctors helped her recover physically, while social media shared her story and reunited her with her family.

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, also lost sight of who he was and where he had come from. His ‘amnesia’, though, was spiritual. In taking credit for the kingdom he’d been given, he forgot that God is the King of kings, and everything he had was from Him (DAN. 4:17,28-30). God gave a visible picture of the king’s state of mind by driving him into the fields to live with wild animals and eat grass like a cow (VV.32-33). Finally, after seven years, Nebuchadnezzar looked up to the skies and his memory of who he was and who had given him his kingdom came back. Returned to his senses, he said, “I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King
of heaven” (V.37).

What about us? Who do we think we are? Where do we come from? Since we easily forget that all we are and have depends on God, who else can we count on to help us remember but the King of kings?

To Pray About…

Father, we so easily forget who we are, where we’ve come from and that we belong to You. Help us to remember that in Jesus we are Your children—known, loved and cared for—now and forever.

WHEN WE FORGET WHO WE ARE OUR FATHER WILL REMIND US

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