🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego–whom you have put in charge of the province of Babylon. They pay no attention to you, Your Majesty. They refuse to serve your gods and do not worship the gold statues you have set up. –Daniel 3:12
🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿
In front of you. On the plains of Dura, a region of Babylon. A mammoth statue 90 feet tall and nine feet wide. A vast multitude of the most important members of Babylon’s governing members present: governors, advisers, judges, treasurers, magistrates. The music of horn, flute, harp, lyre, and other instruments, eerily flowing through the tense air. A sea of powerful provincial officials kneeling before the statue. Except three young men whose belief in God beats in their heart a different melody. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. A refusal to submit is supposed to be a regret-filled rocket trip to the furnace of death. But not for these three.
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Fierce faith that faces up to a fight against the world. Fiery faith that falls only before a faithful God.
At some point in life, we are going to encounter our worst enemy, our worst fear, our worst “——”ever. We have to make the choice to have a fierce faith or a faltering faith. We aren’t talking about an idealistic fearless faith. Because the reality is, fear will stand right next to you, around you, behind you, all over you. Fear will dangle your hand to dance the dance of discouragement and defeat as the stanzas of notes reverberate, “This Is Your Last Chance. This is Your Last Dance.” Fierce faith means you don’t bow to the who or what that is telling you to surrender. Fierce faith translates, “I’m gonna fight. Even if I fall. But if I fall, I fall onto you, God.”
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A burned inside faith or burned out life.
We can live with a fire burning inside of us or we can race through life burning out faith out on the outside over things not worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Plans not of God. Pursuits counter to the character of God. Purposes not glorifying to God. People we invite into our lives not sent from God.
To live an inferior, interior life. If you fall down to the things of the world instead of to God.
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Sing praises to the Lord, our strength. —Psalm 81:1
The music that day on the plain of Dura must have been deafening. Loud beyond enough for cornucopias of crowds to hear. It’s not always about the volume which the world serenades. It’s the content and the call that sings to our heart and that stirs straight to the spaces in our soul that yearns for the fullness of God to fill.
The song that day that held the three on their feet is one of deep devotion of praise to the Lord their strength. A song internally strong enough and eternally sweet enough to withstand the towering spirit of fear that pervaded the entire plain. Christ courage greater to overcome. Cosmic conviction greater to overwhelm.
Fierce faith that faces up to a fight against the world. Fiery faith that falls only before a faithful God. When the world’s song rises up against you, let your faith be fierce and fiery in the Real Truth.
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