Taking the Heat

Taking the Heat

Daniel 3:17…our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.

When Nebuchadnezzar threatened to throw three young men into a furnace for refusing to bow down and worship his image, they said, “…our God is able to deliver us.” Nebuchadnezzar was so mad he had the furnace heated to seven times its normal temperature and tossed them in, but when he and several witnesses looked in the furnace, they were amazed to see four men walking around in there, and one of them looked like the Son of God. The three men came out of the furnace unharmed, and they didn’t even smell like smoke.

There may be days when you feel like you are walking in a furnace. The pressure to bow down to the world system seems insurmountable at times, but just as Jesus walked in the furnace with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, He’ll walk with you through the fiery trial you face. The God whom you serve is able to deliver you.

So when the world tries to force you to accept something you know is wrong; when the world tries to get you to tolerate what you know God hates; when the world hammers you with false ideologies and paints you as some kind of bigot because you won’t accept them; when the world throws you in the fiery furnace… …answer the same way our three Hebrew friends did, “We do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the image which you have set up.” (Daniel 3:18) When you do, you can expect to catch some heat, but because Jesus is with you, you’ll be able to take it.

Have a God Filled Week,
Brother Donnie