“In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote…on the plaster of the wall.” Daniel 5:5
If you have never read the account of Belshazzar’s Feast in chapter 5 of Daniel it is certainly worth your reading. It is a wild account of a drunken feast that King Belshazzar threw for several thousand people. At the pinnacle of the unholy celebration it was abruptly interrupted when the words of a message began appearing on the wall being written by the fingers of a man’s hand. These fingers were the very fingers of God with a warning of future destruction for the king. The ultimate wall graffiti that could not be painted over.
This morning in Psalm 23 – The Shepherd with Me by Jennifer Rothschild I was blessed to read an example of how she fights fear with faith in her dark valleys. She said that she draws a valley and writes the many reasons she doesn’t have to fear. She calls it grace graffiti and I couldn’t wait to do mine. I am confident that God blesses each and every time we remind our hearts of His promises when suffering. I know as a mother it always warms my heart when one of my children tell me that they remember what I told them in tough times. In the same way when we apply the promises of God to our situations and cover the circumstances with these promises we will see our valley snapshot with the most beautiful grace graffiti we’ve ever seen. No man can whitewash the walls of our valleys, and no fear can paint over the promises.
Take a moment and draw on your valley walls recalling and reciting the beautiful promises of God and the reasons that we do not have to fear. There is a song by Kim Walker-Smith that is full of musical graffiti that tells us why we don’t have to be afraid. Turn up your volume, open up your heart and let faith win!
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