Statue of Nebuchadnezzar
Refuse The Idol
The story of Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego is impressive. While being threatened to be put in a raging furnace and burned alive, all they had to do to avoid this, was to worship the king’s idol. Now, many people would gladly start worshiping the king’s idol to stay alive, like many of the other men of Jerusalem. Others would worship the Idol just out of their desire. Not these three men, they stood their ground and refused to worship anything other than the one true God. Even when faced with certain death, they said, “ no matter what! even if God didn’t deliver them, they would never bow down to an Idol.”
Oftentimes in life, we let things, non-essential things, become the center of our attention. We allow things like money, status, social standing, or even pleasure to be the most important in our lives. We idolize these things, and soon they start to take over, and eventually, outweigh the importance we have for the Lord. But today my friends, dash these idolizations aside. Take these things off the throne of our minds, and put God back AT NUMBER ONE! Have a blessed day.
Written by – Roy Anderson II
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