Contemplative Bible Reading

Daniel 3:29 (New Living Translation)

Therefore, I make this decree: If any people, whatever their race or nation or language, speak a word against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they will be torn limb from limb, and their houses will be turned into heaps of rubble. There is no other god who can rescue like this!”

Nebuchadnezzar, who was practically king of the world, is speaking. Note two things. First, he singles out the God of these Hebrews. That god is separate from all other gods. The Hebrews have only one god. He doesn’t say, “no one may speak against the gods of these three men.”

Second, Nebuchadnezzar proclaims that no other god can rescue like this. The God of the Hebrews, the Creator God, has power that no other god possesses.

The king of the world recognized the existence and power of God the almighty. And on what occasion? The execution of three Hebrews for insurrection. How did one event lead to the other? There is no possible way that…well, there we go.

There is no other god who can turn one event like this into a second event like that.