06/02/2026
Thought for today...
Are you prepared to serve Christ, no matter the cost??
In the Bible we read... They were 1,500 miles from home. Who would know? Who would care?
But they knew God was watching, and as young men they dedicated and committed themselves totally to God.
These young men were Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego. They refused to break God’s law are to bow down before King Nebuchadnezzar who had had become powerful and egotistical (Daniel chapter 3).
We have to choose. That is a choice that each one of us has to make—a choice of either bowing down to the things of this world, which are evil and wrong, or bowing down before the true and the living God.
Satan calls upon people to bow down to pride, lust and many other things.
Money is something that Satan wants us to bow down to. Greed goes all the way through our society. Greed is an idol.
Success is another. The image overlaid with gold, flashing in the sun, is the image erected to success and human glory: “The great golden image which I built,” Nebuchadnezzar said (Cf. Daniel 3:14). He didn’t give God any credit at all. He said, “I built it.” And some of us say that, too: “Look what I’ve done.” “I have built this business.” “I am a self-made man.” “I built this ranch.” “I did this.” “I did that.”
Nebuchadnezzar could destroy the body, but he could not destroy the soul. We have a body, but living inside us is our soul, our spirit. That is the part of us that will live forever. Jesus warned, “Fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).
Just like Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego we must follow Christ no matter the cost.
Have a blessed day!
Pastor Gary L. Moore