Daniel 3:28
“Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednago, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusting in him, and set aside the King’s command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.”

I love how God shows us so clearly the faith and courage he placed into Shadrach, Meshach and Abednago. They had amazing faith. They were willing to die rather than to bow down to a god other than the one true God. They would not worship the god that the King commanded them to, and were thrown into the fiery furnace that was so hot that even the guards who brought them to the furnace died from the heat of the fire, yet, these 3 young men were saved from harm by God. God is able to do ANYTHING! This act of saving these three men served to make the King worship the one true God! God was glorified.

There are many Christians in today’s world that are killed for their faith in Jesus Christ. God is the same today as he was in the days of King Nebuchadnezzar, yet, Christians die for their faith. I am not discouraged by this. I know that God is good, He always has, He is and always will be. God is sovereign and he has his reasons why this kind of persecution is allowed to be. We can therefore be sure that God has a plan and HE is being glorified in this.

This makes me want to bow down and worship our God and declare that HE IS WORTHY OF ALL GLORY AND HONOR AND PRAISE!

I am also convicted that I should be more diligent in praying for those Christians in the world who are being persecuted for their faith.