God's Plan, or Your's

So, here's my thoughts for the week.  Do you ever think that God should be doing something that He's not doing or shouldn't be doing something that He's doing?  

As I was praying about what to write I began to think that I am sometimes like that.  I don't even really consciously think about really but I know that sometimes I do question what God is up to.  I'm reminded of the disciples questioning Jesus, especially Peter, as He is preparing and telling them that He is going to die soon.  Peter jumps in and says, in the way that Peter did many things, that it would never happen and that Jesus shouldn't be saying such things.  

Jesus, in effect, rebukes him as He tells Satan to be get behind  Him for what he was thinking was not of God.

Think about that.  Peter told Jesus that what He was about to do was the wrong thing for him to be doing.  How stupid and foolish that sounds to me, especially for a guy like Peter.  I mean he'd been living and walking (literally) with Jesus for almost three years.  You'd think he would have figured out by now that Jesus knew what He was doing.  Such is not the case though.

Are we not the same?  We question what God is doing, even though many of us have been walking with God for a long time now.  You'd think we would have figured out by now that He knows what He is doing.  He's never failed us in the past.  He's never been wrong about the way that He has done things before.

Peter was nearsighted though.  He was only looking in the temporal.  As far as his eyes could figuratively see.  God, though had another plan, and it included Jesus going to the cross to pay for the sins of all mankind.  Here's the ticket: God's plan for Peter, the other disciples, and the rest of humankind was way better than anything Peter could conceive that it was supposed to be.

Do you have anything in your life that you are questioning God about?  I would encourage you to entrust it completely to Him.  His plan for you is way better than anything you could ever imagine, no matter what you might conceive it to be.

Something else that I just thought of too is this. When God wants to bring about something good in your life it most often comes through the path of suffering. That's often the reason why we question what He is up to, but suffering is the process by which He has chosen to accomplish much in this fallen world; so do not run from it. Rest in Jesus and find yourself rising above it with wings as of eagles. :)