In the 80s, popular Christian songwriter Keith Green’s “No Compromise” album cover pictured Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego not bowing their knee to the king’s edict. They would not give into his command. They did not fear him. They chose to bow down to nothing and no one but their God, the true God. Don’t bow your knee to fear in any form. Don’t do it and watch God cover you like He did with those three (see Daniel chapter 3).
What are we rehearsing? What are we choosing? What posture am I used to living in and reacting from? Is it fear or FAITH?
Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh (Yes, fear will come and try to make us bow to it. The question is, what will we do when it comes?). For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Proverbs 3:25-26
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work (of faith) in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Philippians 1:6
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death (fear), blessing and cursing: therefore choose life (faith), that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20
What are you choosing each day?
Be not afraid!
Thanking and praising God in all things,
Mark