Sunday, December 13, 2009

Into the furnace

As I sat in church at Heights Church last night, we were studying Daniel 3. Specifically we were working through the passages about 3 young men being thrown into a furnace for civil disobedience. They would not bow down and worship an idol of Gold the King have built.

Anyway, the boys were to be executed by being burned alive. They were bound and thrown into a furnace. Interesting as the Bible unfolds the story that the King observes 4 figures in the flames, when only 3 were thrown in...He says the fourth figure "looks like a son of the gods".

Here is what caught my attention. You may be rescued from trouble, BUT you may still go INTO THE FLAMES...FIRST! God could have saved them before they went in, but it's better that HE met them IN THE FLAMES.

When times are tough, God meets us...even in the worst places.

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