"So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, securely tied, fell into the roaring flames.

But suddenly, Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and exclaimed to his advisers, ‘Didn’t we tie up three men and throw them into the furnace?’

‘Yes, Your Majesty, we certainly did’ they replied.

‘Look!’ Nebuchadnezzar shouted. ‘I see four men, unbound, walking around in the fire unharmed! And the fourth looks like a god!”

Daniel 3:23-25

God doesn’t always remove us from the fire, but He always joins us in the fire.

Its so much easier and makes better sense to pray and beg God to remove us from the fires in our lives. We just want to be happy and have great things happen to us, we don’t want to endure anything that may be painful and/or hard to go through.

We long for things to be normal and in order. We just want perfection.... Or is that just me?

What if - Instead of asking God to remove us from our struggles we ask that He make it known that He is there with us? These fires are there for a reason, to teach us more about who God is and who we are because of Him.