KS&L 312 Why God Doesn't Always Give Us What We Ask For Part 1

The Karmic Savings and Loan Chapter 31?: Why God Doesn’t Always Give Us What We Ask For Part 1
How many times have you had situations where you wished desperately for something and it didn’t happen?
How many times have you been angry with God for not allowing you to have that promotion, marry that special person or have that child you so desperately wanted? Imagine your anger at God if you lose a loved one!
How many times have you pondered why you seemed ‘stuck’ where you were? Often as you faced mounting frustration in what you were doing, or trying to do, you found yourself, shall we say, irritated at God. Perhaps you wondered: ‘why isn’t God helping me? Why won’t God let this happen?’ Perhaps you have prayed long and hard for what you thought you wanted to happen, and you were angry that God did not answer your prayers.
Maybe receiving something, such as a job, a questionable opportunity, or a person in your life, baffled you, because it was something that you thought you really didn’t want, and nothing related to what you truly did want. Why does it work this way?
God just doesn’t always give you what you think you want when you think you want it because it is not part of the Divine Plan. This concept is an element of faith and faith, true faith, requires courage to understand, to accept and to learn to work within its often baffling, confines.
As you embark on your spiritual path, you are often told to ‘ask for what you are ready to receive.’ Yet you find that you receive something else, or you receive something or someone in your life, which isn’t overtly helpful as the following examples illustrate.
A young woman wanted to become an Air Force Officer. She filled out all the paperwork, jumped through every hoop and nothing happened. She applied for other civilian jobs and less happened. Literally, no one would hire her. One day she decided to apply to become a Naval Officer. Once again she jumped through every hoop and to her utter amazement, she got in, went directly to the next Officer Candidate class, was not delayed in anyway and had a long and successful career and a very happy marriage to another Naval Officer. If any of the other jobs had panned out, she would not have had the experiences she was meant to have.
Once upon a time, an Executive received the news that a new employee was coming to work for her, transferred from another division in the company. The Executive had been hoping for someone she could groom, someone she could work with easily and who could fill her tiny shoes when she left. What she got was a person with a staggeringly brilliant intellect, and an utterly impossible personality. Everyone in the last division disliked him intensely. Everything this man did made her life a thousand times more difficult. Her subordinates begged her not to even go on vacation because this would leave this man in charge and life would surely be hell. What could she do? What she ended up doing was teaching this man how to work with other people, how to use his wonderful mind in a different way and how to learn to be of service to others and become precious to people. This man was a huge opportunity and she chose to see him that way. This man is now one of her most cherished friends. They were both lessons and gifts for each other. That is how God really works, that is why we do not always receive what we think we want.
Each choice we make will determine what opportunity we receive next. Ironically, as random as life sometimes seems, this is among life’s most definite laws. Each opportunity can make us feel weaker or stronger.