HEART HOPE FAITH
Impending Doom
COLUMN
WITH TONI-ANN MILLEN
He spends time on every “insignificant” detail and so even when I don’t understand I know the script is right. However, recently I found myself in a predicament that though I didn't understand seemed to even contradict what
Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.
God said. I wriggled and struggled many nights
(Daniel 3: 17-18 ESV)
There was no doubt the matter would not end
trying to find the sense in it all. God left me to squirm a bit. Then he pointed something out to me, I felt something was wrong because the situation was daily getting worse and leading me to what I felt was impending doom.
well if God didn't act now…this wouldn't be an inconvenience this to me was going to be the worst imaginable thing and there would be no coming back from it. Anxiety kept me up many nights, as each day that ended brought me closer to my ultimate fear. One morning, some infamous Bible stories came flooding one after the other. The Israelites standing before the Red Sea, The Israelites on Faith in God is the only way I make sense of my
the banks of the flooded Jordan river, Daniel
life. What happens, the people God makes cross
and the Lion’s Den, The three Hebrew boys and
my path, the challenges he carefully curates
the fiery furnace and Jesus on His way to the
(which I sometimes feel will kill me).
Cross. What did these stories have in common? A few things actually.
