What about the Law?

I recently had a interesting conversation with my daughter.  She brought up a subject that she had been discussing with a friend.   Remember when the Ark of the Covinient was being moved around by the children of Isreal?  God had made a law, that no one was to touch the Ark in any way.  This ark was were the very presence of God was .  Along they way one of the guys carrying the Ark, slipped and fell ,and it was on it's way to hit the ground, possibly breaking it into a million peices.  But a man, saw what was happening grabbed the Ark and made sure it did not touch the ground.  The man who touched the Ark, was struck down from Heaven by God, and died.
  This got me and my daughter talking about the Law, Grace, and things like that.  Why did God not understand that this gentleman was trying to save the Ark from touching or breaking upon the ground?  He was just trying to help.  Erin, my daughter said this is one of those things that even though we do not understand, we must accept because God knows His ways and we do not, we cannot see "The Whole Picture".  She is right.
     Have you ever tried to "Help" God?  You know, pray like this: "  Dear God, Oh Wonderful Savior, I need a job, so bad, and I know you will help me find one, you know I would like to work at that place that Susie works, it seems like a good place to work, I know they aren't hiring right now, but if you could see your way to make someone get fired or quit, then I could work there"  Amen.
That brings to mind the gentleman who tried to "help" God, by not allowing the Ark to touch the ground.  I am sure is was instinct when he reached for the Ark.  I mean you see something falling your instinct is to catch it before it hits the ground.   BUT God had said to not touch the Ark.  The guys who were carrying it used long poles that were fed through hole type things so as not to actually touch the Ark itself.  What do you think might have hapened if this gentleman had not touched the Ark?  Maybe God would have reached down from Heavan and stedied the Ark Himself?  Maybe the ark would have just hoovered in mid air untill they got the poles back in place, and continued on their way?  The bottom line is God does not need our help. 
You may have heard this before, but I told this illustration to my daughter, "A man was looking out a window way above the traffic in a large city.  He looked way down below and saw a rather large car attempting to squeeze into a tiny parking space . The driver of the car, was turning the wheel this way and then that, surley he could get his car into this space.  But from above, the man saw there was no way that large car was going to fit into that small space.  Then the man in the building looked down the street and saw 4 or 5 empty spaces just a block or less down the way.  He began banging on the glass, yelling," go around the block, there are spaces down the way...."...........But of course the man in the car way down on the street could not hear him. 
God sees us striving in our everyday lives, struggling with the littelist things, worried about the stupidist concerns, and He can see that tommorow those things will not matter a hill of beans.  He sometimes is Yelling at us, banging on the window saying" Don't worry about that, just press on and look at this place that is just down the street where you can rest.  You are trying to do MY job, I will fit you into the place you  belong, you'll never do it on your own."
     God's ways are higher then our ways, He has plans for us not to harm us, but to enrich us (That is my translation)  When we think you can help God, we are putting ourselves to a level that is equal with Him,  There is NO WAY We are equal with God.   He can see the Big Picture, and we can only see the tiny parking space we are trying so hard to squeeze into.
     There was a song years ago during the Jesus Days, of the  '70's by "Love Song.  It was called "Front Seat, Back Seat"  It begins:  "I was sitting in the front seat, trying really hard to be the driver,.".................and
through the rest of the song we learn that he has decided to "sit in the back seat and leave all the driving to Him"

Are you like me, sometimes tellilng God how to answer the prayers we pray?  Do we disobey the Laws of God, because we are "Just trying to help". ? When is the last time God needed any Human Beings help?  He made us, He can do anything by Himself.  Remember, he is the Driver, He is the Captain, He is the Chief Engineer He is the Pilot, whatever conveyance you pick to go through this life, leave the "Driving" to Him.   His Ways are ALWAYS the best ways.