“King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote.”

Daniel 5:1-5 ESV

http://bible.com/59/dan.5.1-5.esv

All,

This stands out because Daniel says, “They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.” Are you ever tempted to praise the created instead of the Creator? I am. God loves for us to enjoy the blessings He gives us, but He also knows we will be tempted to worship those things. God’s first command is to have no other God’s before Him. Please pray that we and our friends thank God immediately when we are grateful for anything He has given us. Please pray for David and Wes’s group as they are forming.