Our faith can’t be based on everything turning out all right. Rather, our faith must be about being okay… no matter how things turn out. Just ask Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3:17-18 when the king threatened to throw them into the fiery furnace for refusing to worship the golden image. In the most extreme expression of faith and trust in God, they replied, “But even if He does not save us…” And that’s how our faith must be. It can’t be based on results…a type of bargaining with God, a “I’ll trust You if You come through for me” type of faith. No, our obedience in the face of possible suffering must rely instead in knowing that God will be with us regardless of the outcome. (Isaiah 43:1-2)
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