Handwriting on the Wall

       You may have had some instances in your life where a series of events led you to day that you could see the handwriting on the wall.  You might see the department that you are working in getting smaller and smaller and then a part of your company is sold to another company.  You may then say, "Well, I can see the handwriting on the wall."  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what is going on.  We often use that expression when the circumstances around us indicate that a change is coming whether we like it or not.  The original "handwriting on  the wall" experience was here in the Book of Daniel when Belshazzar the king decided to drink of dedicated vessels from the temple in Jerusalem.  He mocked God and God answered him quickly.   Daniel 5:5-6 says,  "In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.   Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another."   
     The description of the event is almost humorous as we see a frightened king of Babylon who was shaking so much his knees knocked one against the other.  To see what he saw, was indeed frightening as just a hand wrote on the wall.  We know the rest of the story as the kingdom fell that night and Belshazzar was killed and Darius took over at the age of sixty-two.  There are probably many different times in our lives when we can say that we see the handwriting on the wall.  It can be in relationships, your church, your job, your education and even in the daily news.  While we know the characteristics that will be prevalent in the last days, we too, can see the handwriting on the wall.  In this case, we can see that conditions in the world and even in the church tell us that the end is getting closer and closer.  Things are not getting better in the world, they are steadily getting worse.  The items mentioned in Second Timothy 3:1-5 are here today and you can say "I can see the handwriting on the wall."  Now, the question comes up, "Since you can see the handwriting on the wall, what does that mean to your own personal life?"  Does the handwriting on the wall urge you to get moving and to share the gospel more fervently?  Does the handwriting on the wall cause you to pray more?  Does the handwriting on the wall cause you to worship God more fervently?  With some, even the handwriting on the wall does nothing to move them.  Don't be one of those people.  Praise God today that He has the Master Plan.  Do you hear the Son of God getting up from His Throne and preparing to return to gather His Saints?