In doing things both for us and through us, God establishes a very purposeful order that keeps us safely headed into more and more transformation. (If we hang onto the idea that we have to experience certain things happening through us before God will do anything for us, we�re cooked.) As we bask in the knowledge that He loves us regardless of how well we do, we can eagerly embrace the inevitable changes that we�ll experience as our nature increasingly comes to resemble His. As Daniel introduces a new study in I Peter, he focuses on how this hard-to-believe truth makes it possible for us to actually love unlovable people.