「你們要在東方（直譯：在火中）榮耀耶和華。」－以賽亞書24:15
三位被丟進火坑的希伯來人從火中走出來時，他們和進去時只有一點的不同，就是火焰已燒去了他們的捆綁。
神經常在苦難的烈焰中除去我們的鎖鏈。他們的身體毫髮無傷－頭髮沒有燒焦，衣裳沒有變色，身上也沒有火燎的氣味（但以理書3:27）。
今天基督徒走出試煉也該像他們走出火坑一樣－燒去鎖鏈，卻不為火焰所傷。
「在凱旋中向他們誇勝。」－歌羅西書2:15這是真正的得勝！在凱旋中，勝過纏身的病魔；在凱旋中，勝過死亡的威嚇；在凱旋中，勝過險惡的環境。
相信我！在我們咬牙苦戰時，基督的能力能使我們得勝；而我們至終要攀上高處，當我們回頭一望時，可以唱出歡呼得勝的凱歌。
即使我們貧窮，但別人會認為我們富足，因我們能使許多人富足。
我們的得勝總是「在凱旋中」的得勝。
基督是藉著祂受的羞辱而得勝；我們的得勝，也許在於別人所看為羞辱的處境中。－波登
"Glorify ye the Lord in the fires" (Isa. 24:15).Mark the little word "in"! We are to honor Him in the trial--in that which is an affliction indeed and though there have been cases where God did not let His saints feel the fire, yet, ordinarily, fire hurts.
But just here we are to glorify Him by our perfect faith in His goodness and love that has permitted all this to come upon us.
And more than that, we are to believe that out of this is coming something more for His praise than could have come but for this fiery trial.
We can only go through some fires with a large faith; little faith will fail. We must have the victory in the furnace. --Margaret Bottome
A man has as much religion as he can show in times of trouble. The men who were cast into the fiery furnace came out as they went in--except their bonds.
How often in some furnace of affliction God strikes them off! Their bodies were unhurt--their skin not even blistered. Their hair was unsinged, their garments not scorched, and even the smell of fire had not passed upon them. And that is the way Christians should come out of furnace trials--liberated from their bonds, but untouched by the flames.
"Triumphing over them in it" (Col. 2:15).
That is the real triumph--triumphing over sickness, in it; triumphing over death, dying; triumphing over adverse circumstances, in them. Oh, believe me, there is a power that can make us victors in the strife. There are heights to be reached where we can look down and over the way we have come, and sing our song of triumph on this side of Heaven. We can make others regard us as rich, while we are poor, and make many rich in our poverty. Our triumph is to be in it. Christ's triumph was in His humiliation. Possibly our triumph, also, is to be made manifest in what seems to others humiliation. --Margaret Bottome
