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introducing your conclusion

Daniel 4:1-3 (JDV)

Daniel 4:1 King Nebuchadnezzar, To those of every people, nation, and language, who live on the whole land: May your prosperity become great.
Daniel 4:2 I am pleased to tell you about the miracles and wonders the Highest God has done for me.
Daniel 4:3 How great are his signs, and how mighty his miracles! His kingdom is a permanent kingdom, and his dominion lasts from generation to generation.

introducing your conclusion

Campbell writes about these three verses:

“The introduction is actually a conclusion! Chronologically, these opening words belong at the end of the chapter because they grow out of Nebuchadnezzar’s experiences which are recorded in the following paragraphs. But the king was so overwhelmed by God’s dealings with him that, humiliating though it was, he wanted the world to know about it. Perhaps he reasoned that there were many others who needed the same truth he had learned. He, therefore, issued a universal proclamation telling his story, the story no doubt of his own conversion to the worship of the true God of Israel. The first three verses of Daniel 4 contain the superscription of this edict or decree” (44).

We are all heading to a point in our lives where we can introduce our story. What is the message you want the world to know?

Campbell Donald K. Daniel Decoder of Dreams. Victor Books 1977.