The Writing on the Wall

What if the scariest thing about Belshazzar’s last party wasn’t the hand on the wall, but how hard he worked not to look at what he already knew? In Daniel 5, Evan Wickham walked us through a king who numbed his days with wine while the Persian army sat at his gates, and a God who wrote “numbered, weighed, divided” until he couldn’t look away. Whether it’s a bottle, a doomscroll, or a packed calendar, we all have a way of keeping the truth at arm’s length. But the same finger that wrote judgment on Babylon’s wall is the hand that sets God’s people free, and the same God who numbered Belshazzar’s days stretched out his own hands on a cross, so we can look at our mortality without flinching and learn to number our days instead of numbing them.