The experiences of sorrow, of suffering, in some realms of disillusionment and disappointment, the hard way, all the ways of God with us, all the Holy Spirit's dealings with us personally, individually, and as companies of His people wherever they are. What is it, the one thing that the Holy Spirit is really settled upon, determined to accomplish if He can? What is the explanation of everything, the all things in which God works for them who are called according to His purpose? What is it? It's only one thing: it's the reproduction of that Man in you and in me - the introduction of Him into us by new birth in His Spirit, the development and increase of Him in us through discipline, through training, through all these experiences, the effect of suffering, the effect of adversity, the effect of godly sorrow, the sorrow that the Lord allows to come to us, the effect of our difficulties and our problems in this way, the right effect should be more of Christ, more Christ-likeness.