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Have you ever felt that something was the plan of God for your life, only to find out that it’s not really what God wants for your life after all? Well, that happened to King David. David had a desire to build a temple for God, but God instructed that Solomon would build the temple and not David. God said “no” to the desire of David’s heart. It wasn’t that building the temple was wrong and from what we can tell it appears that David had pure motives, it simply wasn’t God’s plan for David to be the one to build the temple. I’m sure it was tough for David to lay down this dream. I don’t believe this will happen to all of us, but I think that God desires for us to put ourselves in a position of submission to His will. Our lives are not about fulfilling our desires, but about fulfilling God’s will. The good news is that God has a plan for our lives, even if it doesn’t play out the way we hoped. When the answer is “yes”, God is good. When the answer is “no”, God is still good. God’s answers, while surprising, are never wrong.