When God allowed Joseph to be removed from his father Jacob, the latter said, "All these things are against me." But it turned out quite otherwise in the end; for at the time of famine, he and his children, and his children's children, and his flocks and his herds, and all that he had, were brought near to Joseph, had a dwelling place in the land of Goshen, and were tenderly nourished all the years of famine by Joseph (Gen. 45:10, 11). This proved that Jacob's greatest trial was in the end his greatest blessing. How often we have been made to prove that the clouds we so dreaded have been big with richest blessings. (Rom. 8:28.)