Paper Cranes... or God's Plan Has a Lot of Steps

People ask, "If God knows everything, why did he keep doing things that he knew would fail, when he could just skip ahead to to big finale?"
God's plan is like origami.
When you do origami, you know what the last step is to get the lovely paper crane, but you can't just go to that last step, make fold # 50 and have a lovely paper crane. There's a process of steps, some of which are annoying (especially when you have big hands and bite your nails like I do), that you have to follow, one after the other, to get to that crane.
God's plan is like that. He knows all the steps to get us where he wants us, and some of them have caused Him a lot of grief, but they all had/have to happen.
I used to think, "Man... that had to really irritate God." when thinking about a particularly bad spot in Christianity's history. I don't think that way anymore. He knew it was coming, and ALSO knew that things would get better once He was past that step. It helps that He never messes a step up and has to refold everything.

That would be a little awkward.