How To Face The Trials Of Life You Encounter

Daniel 3:16-18 -  Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter. "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. "But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up."   NASU

• Know This About God  

The God you love and serve is also able to deliver you. But that doesn't mean He will deliver you the way you would like Him too, nor when you would like Him to deliver you.
 
In our text today Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego would not bow down and worship Nebuchadnezzar's made up gods nor would they bow to the golden image. So they are going to be cast into the fiery furnace because of their disobedience to man but obedience to God.
 
In life you may be following God's commands and then be punished because of it. This is what was happening to S, M, A. Their faith didn't waiver. They knew God could deliver them but if He didn't no big deal. He was still God and they were still faithful obedient servants of God. If they died physically they would graduate into the next life.

• Know This About Your Situation  

God may not remove you from your trial. He didn't remove S, M, A, from their trial. They were indeed cast into the fiery furnace, BUT God didn't forsake them. He didn't remove them from their ordeal, but He did go into the furnace with them.
 
God may not always remove us from our trials but you can be sure He is right there with us the entire way.
 
Daniel 3:23-25 - But these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, fell into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire still tied up.  Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astounded and stood up in haste; he said to his high officials, "Was it not three men we cast bound into the midst of the fire?" They replied to the king, "Certainly, O king." He said, "Look! I see four men loosed and  walking about in the midst of the fire without harm, and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the  gods!" 
 
God knows all about our lives because He loves us. He will never leave us nor forsake us. Just because we might suffer for doing good doesn't mean God has abandoned us.
 
That my friends you can take to the bank.
 
Think On These:
 
God Calls for us to stand, though not always to understand.
 
God doesn't call us to be successful. He calls us to be faithful.

Stay Pumped,
 
Gary A. Serago

Minister of God's Word
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