Shielded In The Fire

He said, “Look!  I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”  Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out!  Come here!”  So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them.  They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.

– Daniel 3:25-27

Today, do you feel like you have been tossed hand and foot into a blazing furnace lit 7 times higher?!!  You are definitely feeling the pressure and constant persecution coming at you left and right and you just don’t know how much more you can take!  It literally feels like you are being put through the blazing hot fire trying to live your life for the Lord!  You wonder if the Lord even sees how much you are going through!  Well, just know to day that the Lord does see all the things you are dealing with and he is the only one who can help you!  The Lord is the only one who is safeguarding your life as you are going through this blazing fire!  There is no one and nothing else that you can cling to other than him!  And just when you feel like you can’t take anymore, suddenly you see Jesus (Yeshua) in the fire with you surrounding you like a shield!  The Lord will not allow what is his to get burned up like chaff!  Instead, the Lord Jesus (Yeshua) will be a shield protecting his people in the fire!  Even when Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were tossed into the blazing furnace, king Nebuchadnezzar could literally see Jesus (Yeshua) – the Son of God- standing in the fire protecting them!  Now how Awesome is that?!!  Even though you feel like you are being put through the blazing fire right now, just know that Jesus (Yeshua) is going to safeguard your life while you are in it!  You will be unbound and unharmed!  And just like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, once you come out of the blazing fire you will see that not one hair on your head will be singed!