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Life can take a turn that is really hard, and we ask, “Why is this happening?” “How could God let this happen?” From our perspective, there may not appear to be a point or it may seem cruel, but from God’s perspective there is a glorious end that we just can’t see. And if we can’t see it yet, we’ll just have to bank on the character of the God who says it is coming and rest there by faith. He was faithful to save us and He’ll be faithful to see us through to the end. We have to look at all our disappointments and storms, and see them as a pathway to glory with better things to come. The path to glory is one where ‘goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives’. But this goodness will just have to take another form for now, that we may not initially recognize.

There actually is a mountain of goodness behind the hill that we thought was our ideal life. That mountain is wild but it is higher still than the hill we wanted to rest on. If we could choose between the two, would we really settle for only the hill and not climb the mountain of God’s wild goodness? Wouldn’t that be cheating ourselves out of the ‘so much more’ that He wanted us to have? Our ideal dreams are only hills, He sees beyond them to a higher good. He will help us get there through this present trial, if we let Him.