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 the opposite in the end; for at the time of famine, he, his children, his children's children, his flocks, his herds, and all that he had were brought near to Joseph in the land of Goshen where they were tenderly nourished all the years of famine. Gen. 45:10, 11. 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.