There are many people throughout the Bible that had unshakable, unmovable faith. I fell led to talk about the 3 Hebrew Boys.... Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
These guys have an interesting story. Their people were in captivity. They had been captured and and were being held in Babylon. A foreign land, away from everything that they know... How are you supposed to cope in a situation like that? How would you cope in situation like that?
These guys had immovable faith. They trusted when Daniel said that they weren't going to eat of the King's portion... (Something, I will definitely talk about at a later time). By trusting in this, which of course was a testament to their faith in God, they gained favor from the King. Not because of the fact that they gave up their faith to follow a corrupt government, but because they showed the better way. They not only caused trouble with their faith, they showed the people how to go about living a better life....
While Hebrews was written to a New Testament audience, it applies to no only many cases in the Old Testament, but it applied to this one specifically as well.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for... The evidence of things not seen....
The three Hebrews boys when presented with giving up their faith, their worship of the one true God, or saving their lives... They told Nebuchadnezzar that there was no way they would stop worshiping God. They told him that even when faced with the fiery furnace they weren't going to stop. The conversation went back and forth to the point where Nebuchadnezzar says "...Who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?" The boys answered the king "We are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God, whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O king, but if not, but it known unto thee o king that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. (Daniel 3:16-18)
They hoped for God's deliverance, but they were not giving up if it turned out God didn't deliver them... It didn't matter to them if they were saved or not.....
That is faith... We should live our lives liked that. Live our lives so that anyone who comes into contact with us sees our faith. Sees our faith not only in our actions but sees our faith in the way we believe...
Faith, is the substance of things hope for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Hebrews 11:1-4)
