“The Gardener Knows Best”

“A man’s heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps”
(Proverbs 16:9)

“… Remember, too, that everything that happens to believers is working for their present and lasting good. “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” If you could have chosen your own circumstances and condition in life, you could not have made so wise a choice as God has made for you.
The gardener knows where his plants will flourish best. Some of them might wish to grow in the sunshine, although like the fern family, they are better in the shade. Some of them would prefer to be on yonder mossy bank, but the gardener puts them in sandy soil because he knows that it is better suited to the requirements of their nature.
You may depend upon it that there never was any earthly father who was so attentive to the needs of his child as your heavenly Father is to yours. When you decide as to the occupation you think is best for your son to follow, you may select the very career that will prove to be his ruin—but when God plans your future, He takes more care in arranging for you than you do in arranging for your boy, and as He sees the end from the beginning—which you cannot see either for yourself or for your child—He
chooses for you with infinite and unerring wisdom.
Do not wish to have it otherwise, dear brother or sister in Christ. Be not only content with such things as you have, but say with David, “The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage … ”
(C H Spurgeon)