To many people, an invitation to fine with the king (Head of State) in his house would be regarded as a great honour and achievement. But for Daniel and the three Hebrews children taken captive to Babylon, it was not a great honour or achievement because they knew that the king's house and his things are attractive mountains in their lives so they rejected it.
Not even thing that seems good is really good, not all that gutters that is gold. Remember the greatest problem to man is man. Man desires and craves sometimes lead to dead end.
Some men sell their vote for money, some mortgage their future for money or food just like Esau did in the Bible. And as unfortunate as it may be, there are still Esau in the world today and it is destroying mankind.
As God's people, we must be sensitive, so that no one mislead us by things that would later build up as mountains before us. Sometimes we use our hands to put our lives in trouble and danger.
Attractive mountains are everywhere around us so let's be sensitive so we don't fall a victim. Act like Daniel and the three Hebrews children.
Daniel 1:5-15
5 Suddenly, as they were drinking from these cups, they saw the fingers of a man's hand writing on the plaster of the wall opposite the lampstand. The king himself saw the fingers as they wrote.
6 His face blanched with fear, and such terror gripped him that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way beneath him.
7 "Bring the magicians and astrologers!" he screamed. "Bring the Chaldeans! Whoever reads that writing on the wall and tells me what it means will be dressed in purple robes of royal honor, with a gold chain around his neck, and he will become the third ruler in the kingdom!"
8 But when they came, none of them could understand the writing or tell him what it meant.
9 The king grew more and more hysterical; his face reflected the terror he felt, and his officers too were shaken.
10 But when the queen-mother heard what was happening, she rushed to the banquet hall and said to Belshazzar, "Calm yourself, Your Majesty, don't be so pale and frightened over this.
11 For there is a man in your kingdom who has within him the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father this man was found to be as full of wisdom and understanding as though he were himself a god. And in the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar, he was made chief of all the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers of Babylon.
12 Call for this man, Daniel--or Belteshazzar, as the king called him--for his mind is filled with divine knowledge and understanding. He can interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve knotty problems. He will tell you what the writing means."
13 So Daniel was rushed in to see the king. The king asked him, "Are you the Daniel brought from Israel as a captive by King Nebuchadnezzar?
14 I have heard that you have the spirit of the gods within you and that you are filled with enlightenment and wisdom.
15 My wise men and astrologers have tried to read that writing on the wall and tell me what it means, but they can't.
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