S3-05 GOD'S ETERNAL PURPOSE

As we struggle to serve God yet cope with the challenges of daily life in this world, it is difficult to remember, “all things work together for good {both negative things and positive things} to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Romans 8:28-29). It is humbly to realize that before God created anything, including his son, you and I were known to him in time, and we were predestined to be conformed, or molded, into persons who willing desire to have the nature of Jesus.