Have you heard this phrase nonchalant or being a chill guy everyone's talking about on the internet?

And what about having a chill faith? Is that possible? Can you have a nonchalant spirituality?

I thought about this and it brought me to like the passage of Daniel chapter 3, 16 through 18.

These are probably the chillest guys in all the Bible. And I just want to read it to you.

Here we go. Shadrach, me, Shaq, and Abindigo, replied to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

If God, if the God whom we serve exists, then he is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand,

O King. But even if he doesn't, listen how chill is this? Let it be known to you, O King, that we will

not serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up. Now, the way that the culture

uses this like chill, nonchalant verbiage,

what they're saying is to be like indifferent, to be so unmoved by whatever the world

throws at you, whatever your enemies throw at you, whatever anybody in the world throws at you.

You're just chill. In this story, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abindigo, what happens is the king

sets up this, like, golden statue and tells everybody to worship it and bow down to it. And these

guys, Shadrach Meshach and Abindigo, they trust in God. They believe in God. And the Torah tells

them from when they were little kids hearing it in, you know, Sunday school, if you will,

don't bow down to any other gods. Don't have any other gods before me. And so they're like,

we're not going to bow down to this God, bro. And like, they're standing up while everyone's

bowing down to this God. They're standing up. Like, just so chill. And then the king says,

hey, what are you doing? I like you guys, but I will throw you in the furnace like yesterday if you don't just bow

down.

And they're like, bro, we don't even have to answer you in this matter because the God we

serve tells us not to do that and he's going to rescue us.

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