How many times have you read a story of someone who endured some terrible suffering and, years later, said, “Though I never would have chosen this, I wouldn’t trade it now for anything, because of what it has turned into in my life”? If that is the perspective that a few years or decades can give, imagine pulling back your perspective to eternity. You are united to him who is ruling and over-ruling over all the details of history. So today you can be encouraged, knowing that Christ, who sees “the end from the beginning” (Isa. 46:10), has united your story to his own.
