In Due Time Christ Died for the Ungodly

"…By tribulations we are stimulated to patience, and that patience finds an experiment of divine
help, by which we are more encouraged to entertain hope; for however we may be pressed and seem
to be nearly consumed, we do not yet cease to feel God's favor towards us, which affords the richest
consolation, and much more abundant than when all things happen prosperously. For as that
happiness, which is so in appearance, is misery itself, when God is adverse to and displeased with us;
so when he is propitious, even calamities themselves will surely be turned to a prosperous and a joyful
issue. Seeing all things must serve the will of the Creator, who, according to his paternal favor towards
us…overrules all the trials of the cross for our salvation, this knowledge of divine love towards us is
instilled into our hearts to the Spirit of God; for the good things which God has prepared for his
servants are hid from the ears and the eyes and the minds of men, and the Spirit alone is he who can
reveal them. And the word diffused, is very emphatical; for it means that the revelation of divine love
towards us is so abounding that it fills our hearts; and being thus spread through every part of them,
it not only mitigates sorrow in adversities, but also, like a sweet seasoning, it renders tribulations to
be loved by us." – John Calvin