My reading this AM was Daniel 3, a story many of us have known since childhood Sunday school. King Neb builds an idol. Commands all to bow down & worship it. The music plays & the landscape is carpeted in men, women, children, nobles & commoners crouched down before the image.
Faced with execution by fire, aware that God might well rescue them or he might allow them to give their lives, 3 people refused to bend their knees to an idol. There’s really nothing new under the sun. Temptations take different forms but they’re essentially the same old tests.
We have one life here. One set of knees. The Bible records their names: Shadrach Meshach and Abednego. The eyes of the Lord still roam the earth, looking for hearts that are whole toward him. Not one is generic. Not one individual is nameless. He sees your courage. He knows the
cultural repercussions are no joke. Stand. And keep standing and then keep standing some more, though your knees may grow weary & wobbly. Stand fast, stand firm, until the day comes when, at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that he is Lord.
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