God's Plans and Timing
God's timing is always perfect for us. Unfortunately, so many of us are too anxious and too self-centered to realize that He sees the entire picture and knows every possible outcome from every possible action. We, on the other hand, just have our narrow, imperfect view of things filtered through our illogical, irrational, emotional brains. We simply don't want to trust His timing. When you truly absorb the above truths, you appreciate God's longsuffering nature with us. When we get to eternity and we are able to look back at our lives we will see that when we let God handle it, great things happened that we were never aware of. However, when we tried to "help" God by doing things by ourselves on our timetable we actually made things worse. For Biblical references of this you just have to look at Abraham and Sarah. They thought it was a great idea to have Abraham have relations with Sarah's handmaiden, Hagar, in order to "help" God get them an heir...