Dateline: 594/593 B.C. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace. June 1989. Steve Curtis survived a shooting that killed two others. Reuters March 2005: at least 19 people were killed and 15 injured when a bus skidded off a mountain road into a deep gorge in India.
What do all these events have in common? Rack, Shack and Benny summed it up nicely, “our God whom we serve is able to deliver us.” These individuals all called upon God to save them.
Rack, Shack and Benny survived the fiery furnace without even the smell of smoke on them. Steve Curtis (a personal acquaintance of mine) survived two shots to the back of the head, which had killed two others. He was speaking in tongues and thanking God for delivering him. After the gunmen shot him, Steve fell down and played dead. Later he testified against the hit men and they went imprisoned. Bughwan Singh, his son and mother were on the bus with their luggage (which included a propane bottle/cylinder) when it, skidded off the road and began to cartwheel end-over-end into a 1000-foot gorge. The believers called out to God, and the next thing they remember is that they were sitting on the side of the mountain watching the bus continue its wild plunge into the gorge. Their luggage was neatly beside them, and the propane bottle was upright. In India, busses have bars on the windows making it impossible to come out a window.
Our God is able! He deals in the realm of the impossible. “Christianity never was designed by God to make a lot of weaklings. It was designed to bring forth a new race of people who were bold and strong and pure and good, blessed be God.” –John G Lake.
