Beltashazzar - NOT A POEM, JUST AN OBSERVATION (HEY, WAIT A SECOND, MAYBE THIS IS A POEM)

IF YOU HAVE GONE SO FAR
AS TO HAVE READ 
GOD'S HOLY 
WORD,
WHICH IS 
PENNED 
NOT BY MEN 
BUT COMES FROM GOD ALONE;
IF YOU'VE READ
AS I'VE SAID,
YOU WILL, 
IF YOU HAVE YET NOT,
COME ACROSS A MAN 
CALLED BELTASHAZZAR.
WELL,
THE NAME THE BABYLON KING
AT THE TIME,
AKA
NEBUCHADNEZZAR,
ONE TO BE HIGHLY
FEARED,
CAME TO DANIEL, 
A MAN OF GOD,
WANTING 
TO BE HIS FRIEND.
NOW DANIEL, 
HANDSOME 
AND WITHOUT DEFECT, 
WAS SELECTED 
AMONGST OTHERS 
OF YOUNG MEN OF THE SAME. 
HE WAS OFFERED FOOD AND WINE STRAIGHT FROM 
THE TABLE OF THE KING.
DANIEL, VERY BOLDLY, 
REFUSED THESE TASTY FAVORS, TELLING THE KING'S CHIEF OFFICIAL
THAT HE DID NOT WISH 
TO DEFILE HIS TEMPLE
WITH THESE RICHES.
SO I PONDER, 
IN THESE EARLY DAYS 
OF MY DANIEL FAST, 
WHY WOULD HE DO SUCH A THING?
WAS HE NUTS?
WHAT COMES TO MIND IS THIS:
MAYBE DANIEL WAS MORE CONCERNED ABOUT HIS TEMPLE THAN HIS TASTE OR EVEN THE WRATH OF THE KING.
AFTER 10 DAYS OF LIVING
ON JUST VEGETABLE AND
FRUIT JUICE
AND WATER,
DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS, 
SHADRACH, 
MESHACH 
AND, ABEDNEGO, 
(I PRAY THOSE THREE NAMES
SOUND FAMILIAR)
ENDED UP BEING MUCH MORE HEALTHIER THAN THE OTHER ISRAELITES WHO HAD BEEN SELECTED FOR THE KING'S SERVICE.
SO HERE IS MY TEST: 
AFTER 7 DAYS OF 
JUST VEGETABLE AND FRUIT JUICE
WILL MY TEMPLE RESPOND
IN KIND?
(HEY, I'M NOT STANDING 
ON THE CORNING
WHINING AND BEGGING,
I'M JUST WRITING FROM MY HEART.)
FOR I AM IN DESPERATE NEED 
OF SOME KIND OF HEALTH RESTORED TO THIS RAVAGED TEMPLE
OF THE LORD'S. 
IN FACT, I WILL GO SO FAR 
AS TO EXTEND 
MY SO CALLED
GOD IMMERSION.

WILL YOU JOIN ME, COLLECTIVELY, IN PRAYING THAT GOD RESTORES MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY DAUGHTER?


I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH HIM WHO GIVES ME STRENGTH - PHILIPPINES 3:14