Daily Devotion: God is Protecting You
God Is Protecting You 'He permitted no man to do them wrong...' 1 Chronicles 16:21 NKJV What would you be willing to do to protect someone you love from harm? Multiply that by infinity and you'll understand how much God cares for you. Nebuchadnezzar took the sacred vessels from the temple in Jerusalem and placed them in a pagan temple in Shinar (Daniel 1:1-2 NKJV). After his son Belshazzar became king, one night during a drunken feast, 'They brought in the gold goblets...from the temple of God...and the king and his nobles...drank from them' (Daniel 5:3 NIV). Now if they'd mishandled some worthless old cup it might not have mattered, but God had too much invested in these sacred vessels to allow them to be mistreated. That night Nebuchadnezzar and his entire kingdom were destroyed because of this unchanging Bible principle: 'He permitted no man to do them wrong; yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying, "...Do not touch My anointed ones..