in the fire

The king said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire. They aren’t tied up. And the fire hasn’t even harmed them. The fourth man looks like a son of the gods.”

- Daniel 3:25 (NIRV)

 

Fire can be good or bad, depending on the situation.
Fire can cook our food for our consumption, or it can consume us. 
Fire can refine precious metals or destroy steel buildings. 

It can keep us warm or ravage an entire forest.

When Nebuchadnezzar had Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego thrown into the fire, he fully anticipated their deaths as punishment for disobeying his orders.
But God had another plan in mind. 
Check out the lyrics to the song Another In The Fire by Hillsong United: 
There's a grace when the heart is under fire

Another way when the walls are closing in

And when I look at the space between

Where I used to be and this reckoning

I know I will never be alone

There was another in the fire

Standing next to me

There was another in the waters

Holding back the seas

And should I ever need reminding

Of how I've been set free

There is a cross that bears the burden

Where another died for me

There is another in the fire

All my debt left for dead beneath the waters

I'm no longer a slave to my sin anymore

And should I fall in the space between

What remains of me and this reckoning

Either way I won't bow to the things of this world

And I know I will never be alone

There is another in the fire

Standing next to me

There is another in the waters

Holding back the seas

And should I ever need reminding

What power set me free

There is a grave that holds no body

Now that power lives in me

There is another in the fire

. . .

And I can see the light in the darkness

As the darkness bows to Him

I can hear the roar in the heavens

As the space between wears thin

I can feel the ground shake beneath us

As the prison walls cave in

Nothing stands between us

Nothing stands between us

There is no other name but the name that is Jesus

He who was, and still is, and will be through it all

So come what may in the space between

All the things unseen and this reckoning

And I know I will never be alone

There'll be another in the fire

Standing next to me

There'll be another in the waters

Holding back the seas

And should I ever need reminding

How good You've been to me

I'll count the joy come every battle

'Cause I know that's where You'll be

There is another in the fire

We are often thrown into the fire because of our beliefs, society today wants us to praise actors, musicians, leaders, technology everything BUT God.

Even when we are thrown in the fire, we are not alone.
There really is another in the fire. 

 

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