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I go through so many seemingly pointless trials and afflictions in my life. At first,I'm usually pretty upset over what's going on because I see no good,just something bringing me down,we're all like that at some point.

In the Bible,a lot of people suffered some majorly huge trials. Daniel in the lions den,and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the furnace. I want to talk about those three guys. Now,their trial is pretty different,but it just shows what amazing faith really is. If you don't know,they were just three young guys who loved God. They were told to bow down to a huge gold idol and they said "heck no,we serve the Lord and no one else",so the king at the time ordered them to be burned in a furnace for their disobedience. These three guys were tied up with rope and thrown into pretty much an oven that was heated seven times the normal temperature. Their faith in God saved them. God was with them during this. Daniel 3:25 even says."Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods." They were able to walk out of the furnace and( 3:27,"They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them").

Now,what I like about this story is a cool kind of analogy. They went in there bound by ropes and came out walking free. Think about this,if we're bound by sin of some sort and we get thrown into a furnace of trials...we can walk out free. The fire burned the ropes off of them and actually freed them. Whatever that trial is in your life,it can help us if we keep our faith strong.

So the next time you find yourself in a furnace of trial,think that God might be using it to burn your ropes off. He does work everything together for good,remember that.