pattern.
“God does things very differently from us (Isaiah 55:8). But there is a pattern. This is a God who chooses death as the means to life (Hebrews 2:14-15), foolish things as the means to shame the wise (1 Corinthians 1:27), humility as the means to exultation (1 Peter 5:6), and poverty as the means to riches (2 Corinthians 8:9).”