Article July 7, 1980 ISSUE

Burning mental bonds

ADRIAN DeWINDT

Nobody need feel bound to a sick body, a dead-end career, unhappiness. Whatever the trouble, the Bible can guide you to freedom. Many find their own lives paralleled in the Bible.

Consider the story in the book of Daniel that relates the predicament of three young Hebrews condemned to death in "a burning fiery furnace" by a Babylonian king. Prior to being cast into the furnace, the three men were tied, helpless as logs, to be thrown on the fire. But when the king looked into the furnace, he saw them walking unbound and unhurt, accompanied by a fourth, "like the Son of God." Apparently, the only result of this fiery trial was to free the Hebrews of their bonds and to make the presence of the Christ visible to the king. They emerged unharmed and without even the smell of smoke. See Dan. 3;

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