You Won’t Smell like smoke!

You’ve heard the phrase, “You don’t look like what you’ve been through.” It has been a long while since I’ve posted a blog entry. During this time we’ve been in a pandemic and the whole world had to shut down. Covid-19, this virus, came and even mutated and many lives have been lost. The world has also been grieving underneath our mandated masks. These last couple of years has been rough for many. There have been vaccination fights, low supplies, worker shortages, and now rumors of war even as I type this. It has all come unexpectedly.

In the midst of this, God has not left us. I’m reminded of the story of the three Hebrews, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. In the book of Daniel, chapter 3, they were ordered to be thrown into a fiery furnace because they would not bow down and worship the king’s false idols and the golden image he created. They only worshiped the One True and Living God and would not worship false gods. The king became infuriated with the three Hebrews and commanded that they be bound and thrown into the burning hot furnace. He thought he had burned them alive but when he looked into the flames he was astonished. Daniel 3:25 - He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

​God was in the fire with them! He rescued them. They may have had to go through the fire but God delivered them. God is faithful. He is with those who serve Him. If you don’t bow, you won’t burn! What is the “fiery furnace” situation you are facing? God is there. God is with you. The Bible says, “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.”
‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭4:12-13‬ ‭KJV‬‬
Rejoice! The joy of the Lord is your strength! (Nehemiah 8:10) You can have joy in a firestorm! Why? Because you’re coming out! The glory of the Lord will be revealed in you and through you! You will be a walking billboard to display the goodness of God!

Take a look at how the story ends:
“And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.”
‭‭Daniel‬ ‭3:27, 30‬ ‭KJV‬‬
The fiery ordeal brought them promotion! They didn’t look like what they had gone through. They didn’t even smell like smoke!
God is with you! He will never leave you. God will even be in the fire with you. You are coming OUT!

Glory be to God!





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