But If Not

What if doing the right thing makes your life worse? In Daniel 3, three men face a furnace with the conviction that God can rescue them—and the resolve to remain faithful even if he doesn’t. Their courage challenges us to trust God before we know the ending, finding hope in the God who meets us in our suffering and, in Jesus, suffers for us.

Scripture: Daniel 3

(Additional Reading: 1 Peter 1.6-9; Isaiah 43.1-3; Romans 8.35-39)

Warm-Up:

Why do you think hard times draw some people closer to God and push others away?

“[The Devil’s Cause] is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do God’s will, looks round upon the universe from which every trace of God seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and [yet] still obeys.”

- C.S. Lewis -