It struck me recently that God wrote a large story in the lives of the people we read about in the Scripture, and it was usually for reasons beyond their understanding. He did so for several purposes, but one of them was to teach and illumine others who would not yet be born until thousands of years after the events. Is it possible that He is ‘writing’ our lives as well, for purposes we cannot begin to understand, and perhaps may never understand in our lifetimes? Our inexplicable sufferings, especially the blows of injustice, may be far more valuable to other souls than we can now guess. Thus the necessity of thanking Him for all our trials, adversity, unjust sufferings, because the fruit of these may be of incalculable worth, though hidden from our eyes.