Oh, the best laid plans do not always go as planned, do they? Here is the King, thinking that he is the most powerful being around, thinking that everything is under his control, with his fiery furnace so hot that the men throwing the others into the fire are consumed by the heat. Here is the King, demonstrating that no one shall resist his orders and live... and he looks into the furnace and sees a fourth man, like the son of the gods, walking around.
That'll make you realize that perhaps you're not the most powerful person in the room, right?
God is always with us, but sometimes it is only in the furnaces of life, in the deepest trials we endure, that we fully see the presence of God with us. I don't know why that is, but Nebuchadnezzar realized it here, and we all find it at some point -- that we aren't on our own when we end up in the furnace, but Jesus is there, and his glory is with us, and though the fires rage, we shall not be hurt, because our king is with us.
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