Have you ever been able to “see the writing on the wall?” Maybe you saw the coming of a drop in stock price or impending doom at your job. The phrase, “the writing on the wall” has become a much used idiom in our culture. It has come to mean someone who is able to see the signs of something bad that is coming, presumably in order to avoid it. The idiom comes from our chapter in Daniel this morning, but our current use of it actually misses the point of what God was trying to tell the original king who saw the writing on the wall. Unlike the idiom, King Belshazzar saw the writing on the wall, but without God’s help, without the witness of one of God’s people, he would never have known what it meant. God uses His people to show the world His writing on the wall. Written plainly in His Word and in His creation. Let’s read the Word of God this morning.
