Key Verse: Verses 18 & 19 – vs 18 "But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." vs 19 "Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated."
Key Words: But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
You can’t – no matter how hard you try – find a better attitude toward adversity than that of these three Hebrew men. It’s this type of attitude toward adversity that makes me stand up and say, “Amen, brother!”
Don’t you sometimes grow weary over the whiny attitudes of those who mope and gripe and complain about the most trivial things?
I’m having a plaque put in my office which says, “The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Whine.”
Thomas A. Edison’s son, Charles, describes the night in which his father’s entire laboratory at Menlo Park burned. The famous inventor was then sixty-seven, and the winter wind blew his sparse white hair as he stood watching years of work go up in flames.
“My heart ached for him,” Charles said. “He was no longer a young man. But then he spotted me and shouted, ‘Charles, go find your mother. Bring her here. She’ll never see anything like this as long as she lives!’”
And the next morning Thomas A. Edison observed, “There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew.”
Amen and amen!
What to do:
✞ Thou shalt not whine.
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