It's the repeated pattern in Scripture. Evil, God, good. This is Max Locato. Evil came to Job,

tempted him, tested him. Job struggled, but God countered. He spoke truth, declared sovereignty.

Job in the end chose God. Satan's prime target became God's star witness, and good resulted.

Evil came to David. He committed adultery. Evil came to Daniel. He was dragged to a foreign land. To Nehemiah, the walls

of Jerusalem were destroyed, but God countered. Because he did, David wrote songs of grace. Daniel

ruled in a foreign land, and Nehemiah rebuilt Jerusalem with Babylonian money. Good

happened. And Jesus. The Bethlehem innkeeper told Jesus' parents to try their luck in the

barn. That was bad. God entered the world in the umblest place on earth. That was good. With

Jesus, bad became good like night becomes day, regularly, reliably, refreshingly, and redentively.