Let’s choose to put our faith in a trustworthy God.
Day Six – Written by Pastor Estany Ruiz
Biblical Example: Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
Prayer Focus: Your Refining
“King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue ninety feet tall and nine feet wide and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. Then a herald shouted out, “People of all races and nations and languages, listen to the king’s command! ……..bow to the ground to worship King Nebuchadnezzar’s gold statue. Anyone who refuses to obey will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.” – Daniel 3:1-6
The King set up a monument of himself for everyone to bow down, or else they’d have to face death by fire.
“My power”… Nebudcadnezzer was filled with the pride and self-accomplishment that gave him the power to take life at a single command.
There are many things in this world that seem to have the “power” to throw you into a fiery trial:
sickness, disease, loss of finances, fear, doubt, compromise.
Reading further in the story, it says in verses 16-18,
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, 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. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.”
The very thing that kept these three Godly men from bowing to society or pressures (or even threats) was their confidence and trust in God.
Their connection and faith in God put them in a unique position of fearlessness. They trusted in God to deliver them from the flames … and they were confident they would see Him soon if He didn’t.
Well, there’s an important distinguishment here: God did not deliver them FROM the flames but He delivered them THROUGH the flames. And, God did more than just deliver them…He actually stepped into the fire with them.
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:35, 37-39 NKJV
So if you take anything away from today’s reading, let it be: when faced with a fiery trial, trust in Him…He’s waiting to show you His glory through it.
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