Perfect

While driving home from church this morning, I was thinking about some of the things that our pastor talked about. One thing that he subtly touched on was the idea that even though we want something in our timing or we want to know "why" God is doing something, we don't always get it. We do not understand the things of God, simply because we are not God. This made me think of the many areas of my life that I thought were going perfectly or I thought were going to work out perfectly, but ended up going in a different direction. There are even some situations where I have had others tell me that they think something is going to happen that they are sure is a blessing from God, but it has ended up not happening. This is just a reminder to me that what I or others think is perfect is not what God thinks is perfect. His definition of perfect is something that we cannot understand. His actions and His ways are not things that can be grasped by our understanding. I don't want this to be depressing or discouraging, but there are so many times where we are misled, then we become discouraged or even blame God for things that didn't turn out the way that we wanted them to. I have to keep reminding myself that God's perfect is not the same perfect that I understand.