Hey friends, today we're looking at the amazing reality that God doesn't just deliver us from trials - sometimes He walks with us through them.
"It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply." – A.W. Tozer
Daniel 3:24-25
"Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, 'Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?' They answered and said to the king, 'True, O king.' 'Look!' he answered, 'I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.'"
What an incredible scene! The three men are thrown into the fire, but they're not alone. The pre-incarnate Christ Himself joins them in their trial. They're not just preserved - they're accompanied by the presence of God Himself.
This wasn't just a miraculous escape; it was a powerful picture of how God works in our lives. Sometimes He delivers us from the fire, but often He meets us in the fire. The miracle wasn't just that they survived - it was that they were loose and walking around, completely unbound in the very place meant to destroy them.
We serve the same God today. While He may not always prevent our trials, He promises to be with us in them. And sometimes it's in the hottest fires that we experience His presence most powerfully.
Where do you need to experience God's presence in your current "furnace"
How has God shown Himself faithful to you in past trials?
What "bonds" might God be wanting to loose in your life through current challenges?
Your fiery trial may be the very place where you experience the presence of Jesus most powerfully.
Stay dialed in,
Jonny Ardavanis