Daniel (Greek) 13:22-27: in context

Susanna, a godly married woman, has been cornered in her garden by two respected elders who have lusted after her and now threaten her: submit to us, or we will testify that we caught you with a young man, a charge that carries the death penalty. She sees the trap with terrible clarity. I am hemmed in on every side, she says; if I do this, it is death to me, and if I do not, I cannot escape your hands. Then she makes her choice: it is better for me to fall into your hands and not do it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord. She cries out; the elders cry out against her; and the household comes running.

Susanna's choice is a striking picture of integrity under pressure. She faces a trap with no good exit: give in to the elders and commit adultery, or refuse and be falsely accused and likely executed. Every path seems to lead to ruin. And in that impossible corner she reasons the way faith reasons: better to fall into their hands than to sin against God. She would rather suffer a terrible injustice, even death, than do what is wrong in God's sight. She does not calculate that her innocence entitles her to save herself by sinning; she chooses to keep her integrity before God whatever it costs her, and to leave the outcome in his hands. That is a searching example for the smaller traps we face, where doing the right thing seems certain to cost us and doing the wrong thing offers an escape. The tempting logic is always that the circumstances are impossible, that we have no real choice, that self-preservation justifies the compromise. Susanna refuses that logic. She holds that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, better to fall into human hands than to sin before God, and she trusts God with the consequences of doing right. As the story goes on, God vindicates her, but her choice was made before she knew he would, in the moment when doing right looked like it would cost her everything.

When doing right seems certain to cost me and doing wrong offers an escape, can I reason as Susanna did, that it is better to fall into human hands than to sin before God, and trust him with the outcome of choosing right?