[Manna - August 31]
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thy hand, O king; 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. Daniel 3:17,18
THE answer of the Hebrews to Nebuchadnezzar,—"Our God whom we serve," is worthy of note.
They
not only acknowledged God and worshiped Him
but they additionally served Him, according as they
had opportunity....Let us resolve, dear brethren,
as did the three Hebrews, that we will worship and
serve only the Lord our God—that we will neither
worship nor serve sectarianism, in any of its many
forms, nor mammon, with its enticements and rewards,
nor fame, nor friends, nor self.
God "seeketh such
to worship Him as worship Him in spirit and in truth,"
is the declaration of our Lord and Head. Z.'99-172 R2496:6