When Mom was growing up in the 1920s, there was only one telephone in the Kelso, Oklahoma, rural community and it was hanging on the wall at the store.
Now my 94-year-old Mom can see my sister who lives 45 miles away on the computer monitor when she talks to her. The first time she and my sister talked, my sister reached out her arms to hug Mom through the computer monitor and blew air kisses that Mom reached out to receive.
I have a program on that computer to access it remotely. One evening I started a word document and typed in large letters, “Hello, Mother, How are you tonight? I love you, Lavon.”
Mom picked up the phone and called me. “Did you make my computer write those words?”
It reminded me of the Bible story from Daniel about the Hand of God writing on the wall.
The fingers of a hand appeared and wrote on the wall at Belshazzar’s party. A thousand lords and ladies were drinking from the golden cups taken by his father Nebuchadnezzar from the temple in Jerusalem when he defeated Judah. They were defiling the precious holy vessels of Jehovah God by praising the false gods of Babylon.
When Belshazzar saw the finger writing, he was frozen with fear and his knees knocked together. He called for the wise men to interpret the writing but no one could tell him what it said. Someone suggested they call Daniel, “a man in the kingdom in whom is the Spirit of the Holy God.”
Daniel read the words, “MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. PERES: Your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians. ” Daniel 5:25-28. Within twenty-four hours the country had been conquered and Belshazzar was dead.
Our country is facing some serious struggles. It’s time for us who are the men and women of God full of the Spirit of the Holy God to interpret the writing on the wall. Have we been weighed in the balance and found wanting?
We can call on God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and He will hear from heaven and heal our land. (2 Chronicles 7:14.)