Good thing I'm not God...

If I were in control of everything, there would be things about my life that would be different, but I predict that if I always got my way, my life would be one huge mess! I would make more money so that I would never understand what it means to live paycheck by paycheck, for one thing. If that were the case, I wouldn't learn lessons about trusting God's provision. A friend would not have rejected me recently, either. But then I might not have a poignant reminder that God desires a relationship with me that I have often found too easy to ignore. There are a lot of other things that would be different in my life if I were in control, but with almost every change I can see that I am better of where I am because God teaches me and makes me grow by putting me here. Sometimes it takes a long time for me to get the lessons and sometimes I would just rather not learn them, but He who began a good work in me will be faithful to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. God is much wiser than I am and knows what I need more than I do, and I am going to trust Him to do what is best for me. He has been in the business of doing what is best for His people since the beginning. He is the same God to whom the Psalmist cried out in pain and the God that he still praised in the midst of the pain. My trials are nothing compared to what many of God's children have gone through, and He sustained and blessed them. I am so blessed that my trials have been relatively mild to this point. I would have done away with them altogether if I had my way. God's ways are not my ways, to which I say, "Hallelujah!" God is not like man, and I am so grateful that He isn't!