Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, May 5 (3:17-18)
“He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods” — Dan. 3:17,18.
THERE is something very fine about the confidence expressed by these three young Hebrews. It was not necessary for God to deliver them from the furnace, if it were not His will. They could trust Him anyway. If He did not quench the flame He would give grace to endure, and they knew that in another world all would be appraised at its true value. It is a great lesson we all need to learn.
—Margaret Denison Armstrong.