Faith in the Fire

Trusting God will always put you outside of some important group of people in the world, and all you have to do to get back in is deny his supremacy. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were able to resist that temptation, even if God didn’t deliver them, because they had ample reasons to believe he was THE God of the universe; his presence with them in the furnace just gave them one more. Christians today have even more confidence to live counterculturally, because Christ has gone through the furnace of the cross ahead of us, and his Spirit is in us, and his church is with us.