Our end-goal is to be fully conformed to the image of Christ our Lord Jesus. This is our greatest glory and reward. Can you imagine you being just like our Lord Jesus? I can’t comprehend it, but we will be just like Him. So yes, everything we are going through for His name sake is refining us so we could glow and flow like our Lord 🙂
Romans 8:29
29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
1 Corinthians 15:49
49 Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man.
2 Corinthians 3:18
18 So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord–who is the Spirit–makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.