READ: Daniel 4:29-37
«Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.» - Daniel 4:37
Pride always comes before a fall. We know Nebuchadnezzar was puffed up with pride because he fell from his position and dwelled with the beasts of the field. The illness of Nebuchadnezzar was to help him recognize the greatness of God in his life. The prophecy of Nebuchadnezzar’s judgment was fulfilled in one stroke.
I read a book in which a man claimed to have gone to Heaven and met with saints who had passed on to Heaven. He met a great pastor who had had a great ministry on earth. This pastor explained to him that he had become proud whilst on earth. He then told him that the Lord had given him a humbling sickness through which he had eventually died. When he arrived in Heaven, he realised that the humbling sickness was the grace of God to him. Through that illness he had repented and humbled himself just before he died. He then said something even more alarming to the prophet who was having the vision.
He said, «When I got to Heaven, I began to pray that the Lord would give many of my followers the same humbling illness so that they would repent before they came here.»
As I thought over this vision, my heart was broken. I realised that many of us suffer so much from pride that we need such external forces to break us down.
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