It doesn't take a whole lot of researching to look back in history to times when people have stood together for something they believed in. My mind immediately goes to Tunisia and Egypt where people have joined together to stand for what they think is right and against what they think is wrong.
In Daniel the 3rd chapter we have a story about a group of young Hebrew teenagers who decided to take Stand Up and Stand Together! They were taken into captivity far from their homes, away from anything familiar and safe. We all know the story, the king constructed a 90 foot statue and demanded all in the land to worship it, and the boys refuse. In fact, they don't even cave in when they are brought before the king with an ultimatum.
16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. 17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. 18 But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”
This made the king so angry he had the furnace turned up seven times the normal temperature. And we remember from Sunday school that the guards were killed when they approached the flames and that everyone who looked in saw four men and not three.
What a powerful illustration still relevant today about the powerful things that can happen when people choose to Stand Up and Stand Together!
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