Am I Absalom?

This past month I was working on a video devotional that I do. This one is working through the story of David and I came to part of Absalom.  All that went well until the Holy Spirit began to bring a serious question to my mind.  That question was, "Are you like Absalom?"    Wait, what... no way!  That was my thought.  But the question lingered and there was more clarity.  Not with people but with God.   What the Spirit was getting at was do I sit around and mumble under my breath (or maybe not under my breath) that if I could change things it would be better.  You see, I realized when I am doing that I am being an Absalom to God.  I am trying to act like I could do it better than God.  God is Sovereign!  End of story!  But, do I think that if I was in charge there would be some things that would have been done different.  I would have been hired for that job, someone wouldn't have gotten sick or maybe some tragic event would have been stopped.  When I do this, I am trying to tell God I know better.  Well, I don't know better, He does!  I do not know what God is doing and why He is doing.  I must learn to trust Him and stop pretending that I know what is best.