God gets His greatest victories out of apparent defeats.
Very often the enemy seems to triumph for a time, and God lets it be so; but then He comes in and upsets all the work of the enemy, overthrows the apparent victory, and as the Bible says, “turns the way of the wicked upside down.” (Psalm 146:9) Thus He gives a greater victory than we would have known if He had not allowed the enemy, seemingly, to triumph in the first place.
This is the obvious truth portrayed in the story of the three Hebrew young men thrown into the fiery furnace in Daniel 3:19-28. God brought forth victory right out of the jaws of defeat. It is true throughout the Scriptures, and best revealed in the death and resurrection of Jesus.
“Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ.”
(2 Cor. 2:14)
