“But at the end of those days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity returned to me. Then I praised the Most High and honored and glorified him who lives forever: For his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation.” (v. 34)

Every time I return to this passage, my mind rattles off the names of four or five world leaders I wish it would apply to.

How different might our geopolitics be if the politicians at the fore would only look up?

The reality is that, if our eyes are anywhere else, we’ll only find insanity. We’ll find greed and pride and immorality. If our eyes are on the earth and its things, they will only be filled with self.

It’s the same thing that caused this king to act like an animal.

But if we would look up—if we would couch our world and our work in the context of His Word and His way—we would rediscover sanity. If they would, then they might govern with eternity in mind. If every earth-bent human would lift his eyes to the true King, he could live fully human!

Let the testimony of Babylon’s king aim our eyes rightly.

— Tyler