On the Brink of Disaster, part 2

Sometimes, we find ourselves not merely on the brink of disaster, we are actually in the fire.  Like the three Hebrew boys -- Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you may have been thrown into the fire.  Or you might have fallen into the fire.  Either way, you are in the fire.  Is all lost? Is victory or success now out of reach?  Are you in an impossible situation? Has the enemy won?  Does being in the fire represent the end? No, not so for the three Hebrew boys.  God is no respecter of persons. Would God do something for them that He'd not do for you?

The fire -- like the issues of our lives, like the storms we face -- may be so hot and intense that our enemies are burned and destroyed by the fire just as the soldiers were who carried Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to the door of the furnace.   But not us!  When you have been thrown into the fire, know that you will walk through it.  Your body will not be harmed.  Not a hair on your head will be singed. Your clothes will not be scorched.  You won't even smell like fire.  Really, you may be thinking.  Yes, really.  Read Daniel 3. 

Now guess what else.  Your promotion is on the other side of the fire.  How do I know that?  God's Word says so.  "Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon" (Daniel 3:30).