It is God’s will, and I delight in it even when it disappoints my hopes. “As for God, His way is perfect”; He has a purpose which He is steadily carrying out, and He is making all things work together to accomplish it. That purpose is that we may be conformed to the image of His Son.
In spite of all our perverseness and unbelief, and the thousand other things that we are ashamed of as we look back on our past lives, that purpose will one day be completely accomplished. How fine we shall be then! It will first puzzle, then astound us to pick each other out in our new garments from the shining crowd of the redeemed! “We shall be like Him.”