When the results are not in line with expectations, that's when failure teaches valuable lessons
Humans can plan and be ambitious about their future. Who do they plan to marry in the future, at what university they will study, in what major, even what job they want to get into to earn a living. However, what humans plan is sometimes not in accordance with God's plan which He has destined for his creatures.
It's humane if we are disappointed, maybe anger is raging in our chest because we may have done our best efforts and prayers. But don't let our failure to get what we want cause us to be angry with the destiny that God has set and even mistrust Him.
Every journey of life no one knows for sure what will happen, everything is full of surprises. We can only try, hope and plan. Sometimes life flows as we expect, but not infrequently what happens is not in line with expectations.
The failure that we feel may have an impact on sadness if we only judge it in a very short time. But if a few years have passed, we will know God's plan that he has prepared beforehand.
Even we feel ashamed to have prejudiced against God in the past. Even someone who was initially disappointed because of failure in marriage, in the end he felt grateful because God protected him from someone who was not good in character and he did not regret his previous failure because he met someone who was better than the previous man.
A person who does not get the dream job may feel angry because he did not succeed in realizing his goals and hopes. But at his new job he may meet someone he is destined to spend the rest of his life with, or find good friends and a much more positive environment than he originally hoped for.
When we think, we are grateful for the many failures that have befallen us before. Because in essence there are more things we should be grateful for than we regret. Even if we had a time machine, maybe we don't want to repeat or fix every event we have decided. Because a failure teaches many things and provides a valuable lesson that is not given in an ordinary school.
We are like a child who still whines for chocolate even though our teeth have been damaged and feel sick because of it. We curse because we are not given what we want even though God knows better what is better for us. We can only see from a surface, while God knows the heart of every servant, the good and the bad, even a word that comes to mind, we cannot hide it from Him.
Humans are always ambitious and #HumansCanPlan against what they want. Believe that human desires will never end. When we are given one thing we want, then we will be busy looking at other things and ambitious again to make it happen.
If we don't get what we dreamed of before, it signifies two things. First, that we lack prayer or effort in trying it. Second, what we want is not good for us and God provides other alternatives that are better than what we dream of.
