Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

I'm Mike Whitmer, and I titled today's devotion, Jesus is the answer.

The tale is told that after yet another stop on Albert Einstein's lecture tour, his chauffeur

mentioned that he'd heard enough of the speech that he could give it.

Einstein suggested they switched places at the next college, as no one there had seen

his picture.

The chauffeur agreed and delivered a fine lecture.

Then came the question and answer period. To one aggressive inquirer, the chauffeur agreed and delivered a fine lecture. Then came the question and answer period.

To one aggressive inquirer, the chauffeur replied,

I can see you are a brilliant professor,

but I'm surprised you would ask a question so simple

that even my chauffeur could answer it.

Then his chauffeur, Albert Einstein himself, did answer it.

So ends the fun but fictional story. In Daniel chapter three, Daniel's courageous three friends

were truly on the hot seat. King Nebuchadnezzar threatened to throw them into a blazing furnace

if they didn't worship his idol. He asked,

What God will be able to rescue you from my hand? Their friends still refused to bow,

so the king heated the furnace seven times hotter and had them tossed in.

They didn't go alone.

An angel, perhaps Jesus himself, joined them in the fire,

keeping them from harm and providing an undeniable answer to the king's question.

Nebuchadnezzar praised the god of Shadrach, Mishak, and Abednego,

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