True Testimony

Daniel 3:26-27 Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, 27 and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorch ed, and there was no smell of fire on them.
 
THE phrase “born again” is a powerful image of the Christian life. Jesus first illustrated his salvation over mind, body and spirit to Nicodemus in John 3:5 “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’”
    To be born again is to live in God’s salvation without a scent of sin to keep you from heaven. You have lived through the deadly fire of sin’s temptations to walk free from sin’s death.
    Out of the fire came Shadrach (Hananiah), Meshach (Mishael) and Abednego (Azariah) without a scent of fire on them. They had entered the fire fully trusting God to protect their lives. Daniel 3:17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king.
    What do you think life was like for Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah after this? We will see the king honored them with higher offices in Babylon. But do you think their worldly positions mattered to them? Would they not live in triumphant devotion to the LORD God, knowing he had personally come to preserve their lives? Would they eagerly testify to all they met of God’s power and mercy? It is as if they have a second life to live.  
    I hope as you are in Christ you realize the God (you) serve is able to save (you) from even Hell’s raging inferno. I pray you live, treasuring life because you know the Mighty One has graciously rescued you from Satan’s death sentence.
    May our born again lives be a constant testimony of God’s power to save.
 
1 Peter 1:23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,  25 but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you.