Faithful
Daniel 3:17 New English Translation
17 If our God whom we are serving exists, he is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he will rescue us, O king, from your power as well.
To exercise courage and to be counted faithful
To be so determined that nothing seems strange
To walk through the furnace, white-hot and frightful
How can it be? And so be counted as deranged.
All things are possible. Do we believe this?
Showing no pity or love for others and neither self
There is no trust in what appears or felt
For safety or security and that for yourself
The faith to explore the unseen and the unfelt
To step out in confidence on the ground still untrodden
To trust in the Lord and stand on His Word
No dependence on the natural, just wholly embodied.
In the hand of the Lord, ignoring all the feelings
Not even pursuing a slight sense of joy
To move on by faith, not needing the crutches
Incredible sensations to which the flesh clings, Ahoy!
No help from feeling is an estate we should strive for
For when the spirit grows weak and intuition replaced
By the ways of emotion that are then employed
By the own way of thinking and depending on man’s grace
It requires faith to be led by The Spirit
And this is mainly contrary to the way I feel
That the only way to serve God and inherit
The trades of God that Jesus lived, a misunderstood appeal
Jan Wienen