The front page of yesterday’s Commercial Appeal showed us yet another example of a person acting like an animal. A man wielding a machete entered an elementary school in Felton, Pennsylvania, and injured three women and six children. Lest we get a superiority complex, we should remember that all of us have the capacity to act like animals. Jeremiah the prophet indicted us all when he declared, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately corrupt. Who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:09)

Today we encounter a king, the most powerful man on earth, who for seven years lived like an animal, and then by the grace of God discovered a new life as a disciple of the living God. We begin reading Daniel 4, verse 1. "King Nebuchadnezzar to the peoples, nations and men of every language, wh…