Four In The Furnace

Daniel 3:25 KJV
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Three Hebrews were cast into the furnace that day but:

They were not burnt
They lost their bondage and
They were visited with a fourth Person
I am afraid that too many of us live our lives in bondage to sin and this world because we are afraid of the fire of the world's disapproval.

We don't want to stand out as different because we don't want to be called out for suffering. Consequently we spend our lives in fear of the flames of suffering and in shackles to the sins of the flesh.

The three were cast in with all that they had. As far as I can see they did not lose a thing when they walked out of the furnace.

But what is worse, many of us never know the blessing of the presence of the Lord because we will not risk ourselves in the flames.

God give us men like these in our own day; men who will not bow, and therefore men who can walk with God.