Destroy Your Binding
Posted on November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Pastor's Desk
There is a story in the Bible about three young Hebrew boys. Their names are Shadrach, Mesach, and Abed-nego. They went through a fiery trial for not backing down from their convictions and suffered a “fiery trial” because of it. 1st Peter 4:12 tells us, “Dear friends, do not be suprised at the painful (fiery) trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you.” Now, I don’t know about you, but, I don’t like trials, complications and the such.
The trial by fire is the moment in our lives when we decide if surving God is worth losing everything for. These three boys reached a quality decision before the king. “If we are thrown into the blazzing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us…But even if He does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods” (Daniel 3:17-18). The courageous young men had determined that, no matter the outcome, they were going to serve God.
Once you have decided you are going to, “rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Chirst” (1st Peter 4:13). Christ will enter the fire with you (Daniel 3:25). Romans 8:35-38 tells us that “nothing shall seperate us from Christ, not tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, nakedness, danger, or sword…” Paul goes on to say that he is persuaded that neither, “death, nor life, nor angels, nor pirncipalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shalll seperate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
No matter what you face today, know that the love of God is much stronger. The thing that I always take away from the story of the fiery furnace is this, the first thing that the fire does is burn away the bindings of the three young boys. Your trial may seem frieghtening, but trust that God is in control and with you even in the midst of a fiery furnace.
