~ Unbound and Unharmed ~

Have you ever felt like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego - in that fiery furnace,

Alone, you thought,

Onlookers piering through the door from their seemingly normal lives,

BUT - only to find that Jesus was right in the flames with you?

He is in that fire, maybe silent, maybe doing nothing more than holding you and gently guiding, but, He Is There, you need only trust and endure!

I have a favorite daily flip calender I have used for almost 20 years - though literally tattered and torn, it still reaches my heart - It is excerpts from Streams in the Desert, by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman. The book is amazing too - a must read if you ever feel you are in the desert or need encouragement for life's most challenging moments.

The excerpt from January 20th was awesome! ~

Unbound and unharmed...they came out of the fire.....The fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed.... Daniel 3:25b-27b

The men who were cast into the fiery furnace came out as they went in-except their bonds. That is the way Christians should come out of furnace trials - liberated from their bonds, but untouched by the flames."

I pray you feel His Presence in the fire and find yourself unharmed by the flames, but unbound from the ____ that gets in the way of His Glory and Works!