You could make a case in Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. for the Greatest Champions of Faith not mentioned in Hebrews 11. Take some time to read Daniel chapter 3.
As I read this passage again, I'm reminded of the faith I strive to model. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego you could say were minding their own business and doing nothing wrong. Yet in the eyes of some they were doing something very wrong. They were not obeying the King. Today we find ourselves in difficult times. The world is very dangerous in some parts. It is very unstable in the financial markets and we would sure not want to lose our job. So it can be difficult and tempting for us to do something for our boss that would violate something unethical or something we see as morally wrong. But how do we resist? It would have been easy for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego just to bow. Even when they were given a second chance knowing their punishment would be death.
Yet it is through this death that their faith is an example for us. Are we willing to give up everything we have to follow Christ? Or just the easy things? That is the path before us each day as we strive to find the fire, and then walk into it.
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