FAITH CAPSULE: Trusting God is rooted in understanding what God has done and all that only He can do.

Daniel 3
 
Ones that trust in God will lean not on their own understanding. Trusting in God in the face of confronting challenges is to deny self from compromising. Trusting God is rooted in understanding what God has done and all that He can. The Psalmist stated in, “We give thanks to you O God, we give thanks! For your wondrous works declare that your name is near.” (Psalm 75:1) Evidently it is the ones that trust Him enough that acknowledges that seeing is wondrous works is same as seeing His word that created the wondrous works. With His works around it is certain that His presence is always around to trust. When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego refused to serve or worship King Nebuchadnezzar’s gold image, they were sentenced to the harsh penalty of death by the fiery furnace. However, they were determined to stand their ground for God. King Nebuchadnezzar further questioned them stating, “…and who will deliver you from my hands?” (Daniel 3:15) They were so sure of their God in their response in Daniel 3:16, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, ‘O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.’” Is there any matter which is demanding you to compromise your faith? Is the matter threatening to you? You can be confident, just as these men of faith were that you have no need to answer the question. The hand of God is might in deliverance; trust in the same hand of God that delivered the Israelites from the bondage of over four hundred years. The three friends of Daniel trusted God and responded, “If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.” (Daniel 3:17) The three friends of Daniel did not waver nor compromise through their ordeal. Seeing that they had been delivered from the furnace fire, King Nebuchadnezzar speaks in Daniel 3:28, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king’s word, yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God!” Your trust in God will frustrate the hand that moves the enemy in your life. Your trust in God will uphold you in the presence of your enemy. Your trust in God will put a new song in your mouth.
 
Prayer for today: Ask God to endue you with the grace that causes man to stand in trust regardless of confronting challenges.