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Have you ever watched a child start a project and asked them what they are making and gotten an answer like "I don’t know yet". My son does that, he will start building something, or doing a craft, with no particular thought in mind as to what it will look like in the end, but he knows it will be something when he gets to the end. Then he reaches that point and he will proclaim something to the effect of "Look it’s a cat!" and I will be fascinated that he spent an hour building it and got there not knowing that is where he was going when he started.
As adults we don’t operate that way. We would never start a project without knowing what we intended it to look like when we were done. Artists are the only ones who operate with a different mindset sometimes, and even they usually have some idea of what the end result should be like. God has an end result in mind for us, a very specific end result in mind. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says "And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." We are being transformed, changed into His likeness, that is what God’s end result is for us, we just don’t know exactly what that looks like. As adults we don’t operate that way, so we will say "wait, hold on, I don’t understand!" When we can’t see how what is happening fits into the end result of what God is doing it is not because God is hiding it from us, it is because we are not always looking to what He tells us our future is. We often concentrate on the moment, rather then His promise, that we "are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory".
What better end result! To be like Him! If what we are experiencing or being asked to do is going to transform us into His likeness then even when we do not understand it should matter not, because we know He is faithful to His promises. Unlike the child who starts the project and and doesn’t know the end result, God knows the end result He is taking you to and He is faithful to fulfill the promise and complete the task. He asks that we place ourselves on His Anvil and allow Him to transform us because we trust Him.