Almost two weeks ago, Rosa Parks passed at age 92. Her simple act of defiance changed the course of race relations.
Parks, arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested and fined. She turned to her minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., for aid. King in turn led a 381-day boycott of the city's bus system that helped initiate the modern civil rights movement.
We need more people like Rosa Parks in God’s Kingdom that will refuse to go against their conviction and stand for what is right.
Similarly, the three Hebrew boys, under captivity in Babylon, refused to bow down and worship an idol. They knew that this defiant act would land them in the fire, but their faith in God was uncompromising. They believed that the God they served was able to deliver them. But even if He did not, they would not compromise!
Standing for right my land you in the fire. But you should never bow down! You should never compromise your convictions in the Lord!
1 Peter 1:7 says it best: “These trials are only to test your faith, to show that it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold. So if your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.”
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