How to Be Human: Inhumane

In Daniel Chapter 4, King Nebuchadnezzar has another dream he needs Daniel to interpret. Once again this dream raises questions for us, what is it to be a God, a human, and a beast.

“And so now we have this king, that was famous for his glory, and for his almost divinity. But he is going to be brought down. He’s going to be brought down so far that he will not become a human like the rest of us – we think – he will be brought down until he’s like an animal. Until the time that he learns that the point of having any authority over creation at all is to have mercy on the poor and the lowly, for this is what it means to be human. To have compassion, and mercy, and a thirst for justice and goodness and beauty upon the land that God loves.”