Read Today's Passage
Look at the 90-foot tall golden idol! It is majestic, is it not? So worthy of being worshiped, the inanimate object symbolizing a fallen man. I have always wondered just who came up with the idea of making the people worship this idol. Was it Neduchadnezzar on his own? Did one of his advisers suggest it? Was it a common practice to cast yourself in gold as tall as a modest skyscraper and force your subjects to revere it as if it were a god? Was the time that the music would play signifying the beginning of worship time regular or random? Did the people know when they would be forced to bow, or were they always wondering if it would happen in the next minute? (I would hate to be the guy on the toilet [yeah, no indoor plumbing, I know] when that music played).
And how much further can Shadrach, Meshach and Abendego be promoted?
In any event, these three men stood up for themselves and even though the men throwing them into the furnace died because of the flames, they were unscathed and had the son of God walking around in the furnace with them. Hmmm. Makes you wonder why some people have such a hard time trusting that God will take care of them when they stand up for Him. Sure, not everyone will be protected like this (This act changed the course of an entire kingdom), but He will take care of us. Why is that so hard to believe with such great examples littered throughout Scripture?
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