So Where Were You?

There's one in every crowd.  There is the person who shows up after all the work is done to point out the faults, the problems or just say how they would have done it better.  They weren't there for the planning.  They weren't there for the vision.  They didn't help set the goals.  They didn't look at the budget.  They didn't set the time line.  They certainly didn't get their hands dirty.  They just show up to use their 20-20 hind sight to point out how it could have been done differently (although "better"is implied).  These people can be very infuriating to the builders and the planners.

It probably would be a good idea to remember this when we are critical with God about how he designed the universe.  We imply that things should be different.  We think that things should be fair.  We think that no one should suffer.  We think that everyone should have plenty.  I imagine God gets frustrated with us too.

There is a scene in the movie "Rudy".  He is speaking to a priest who tells him that we pray in our time, but God answers in his own time.  So Rudy asks the priest what more can be done.  The response was that after his years of ministry there were two things that he was sure of, "There is a God and I'm not Him."

There is a God and I'm not Him.  There is a lot in that statement.  I didn't come up with this world, so I can stop complaining, quit pretending that I know better and get on board with God's plan.  

Now that I am thinking about it.  I suppose that when the world doesn't seem to going the way that I think it should, maybe because it is a world that is designed for God's plans an not mine.  Just maybe.