This chapter starts a whole new section of the book. As I prepared to preach, I was struck again at God’s timing for us in a series that was planned out long ago. This text addresses suffering head on and calls us to rejoice even in the midst of suffering. That runs contrary to everything that we naturally turn to when things aren’t going our way. In the face of uncertainty and anxiety about living in the middle of a global pandemic, this passage will help us all recenter ourselves and remind us of the greatest source of hope we could ever have.