Today the most powerful man on earth files his own testimony, in the first person, about the year God took his sanity to save his soul: I, Nebuchadnezzar, was driven from my throne until I acknowledged that Heaven rules.

It ends with the pagan emperor praising the King of heaven. No one is too far gone, too proud, or too crowned for grace. That is today's headline.

The sentence fell while the boast was still in his mouth, but count the mercy in the story: a warning dream, a faithful interpreter, twelve months of patience, and a restoration waiting on one small gesture, eyes raised toward heaven. God's discipline of the proud is surgical, aimed at recovery, never at ruin.

Peter's ladder shows what grace builds in the humbled: faith adding goodness, knowledge, self-control, up to love, participation in the divine nature itself. The king who claimed he built Babylon ended up praising the God who builds kings. Raise your eyes before the stump does it for you.