When we repent and believe in Jesus Christ each of us steps into a divinely-ordained process that begins to change us immediately, and will continue to change us until the day we die. As our Heavenly Father, God guides everything that happens to us so that it will move us toward His goal…which is to make us more and more like Jesus. We still have a will, so we can slow this process down, and since He doesn’t make us His slaves, it’s even possible to leave Him. But as long as we’re His, He keeps moving us toward our destiny. He’s unrelenting. The plan never changes. The outcome was set before the worlds were made. And to help us reach this goal God has given us gifts through His Son. These gifts are people.