The Sovereignty of God’s Purpose and Appointed Timing Thwarts Good Intentions only to remind us of the Aseity of God’s Divine nature I Chronicles 17:1-3

The Sovereignty of God’s Purpose and Appointed Timing Thwarts Good Intentions only to remind us of the Aseity of God’s Divine nature: I Chronicles 17: 1-3
1 After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a palace of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.” 2 Nathan replied to David, “Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.” 3 That night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:

The finite Nature of David felt compelled with good intentions to please God and house the Ark of the Covenant under the Cedar House he would build instead of under a Tent.
But was David’s good intentions an attempt to appease his conscience for living in a cedar house, while the ark was under a tent?

He felt compelled to build to equal the inequality of unfairness: the articles of the covenant are under a tent, while he lived in a palace of cedar, David had in mind a good intention to appease his guilt and wanting to do a good deed to build a house for God to appease his conscience and please God in his own efforts, merits and resources. His finite nature tried to please God with his good plans. But in doing so, He ended up having a distorted view and misunderstanding on the attribute of God’s Divine Nature expressed in the Aseity of God’s Nature.

In Chapter 2 of God and of the Holy Trinity, in the Westminster Confession of Faith, article 2 says of God:

II. God hath all life, glory, goodness, blessedness, in and of Himself; and is alone in and unto Himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of any creatures which He hath made, nor deriving any glory from them, but only manifesting His own glory in, by, unto, and upon them: He is the alone fountain of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom are all things; and hath most sovereign dominion over them, to do by them, for them, or upon them whatsoever Himself pleaseth. In His sight all things are open and manifest; His knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature, so as nothing is to Him contingent, or uncertain. He is most holy in all His counsels, in all His works, and in all His commands. To Him is due from angels and men, and every other creature, whatsoever worship, service or obedience He is pleased to require of them.
John v. 26; Acts vii. 2; Ps. cxix. 68; 1 Tim. vi. 15; Rom. ix. 5; Acts xvii. 24, 25; Job xxii. 2, 3; Rom. xi. 36; Rev. iv. 11; 1 Tim. vi. 15; Dan. iv. 25, 35; Heb. iv. 13; Rom. xi. 33, 34; Ps. cxlvii. 5; Acts xv. 18; Ezek. xi. 5; Ps. cxlv. 17; Rom. vii. 12; Rev. v. 12, 13, 14.

God is and always was and ever more shall be, He does not rxist, this would imply He Had a beginning outside of Himsrlf, and God does not exist or has a beginning, He ia infinite and eternal and always was, is and evermore shall be, He has no beginning or an end and has no need of anything, the Creator (the I AM) needs no such support system. The word aseity, meaning that he has life in himself and draws his unending energy from Himself, “of all the judges and Leaders who God chose to lead His people to which of them did He ever Say, build for me a house of Cedar to dwell in? “Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders[a] whom I commanded to shepherd my people, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar” God is eternal and self-Sufficient and Is, the Great I Am, infinite and Eternal  and draws all His energy within Himself—unlike finite man, we are not self-existent, we do not draw energy within ourselves; we need to seek it outside of ourselves, food, clothing and shelter and even David had built a palace of Cedar for himself to dwell in.

We are dependant upon God for our Existence, survival, sufficiency and sustaining Grace. When we approach God in our finite nature and interpret God according to our finite nature and understanding we Distort the Greatness of God in our lives and reduce His greatness to our understanding.

Let not this one fact escape your notice, when you do, God will correct you by His Greatness and Divine Nature and Attributes—We need to depend upon God for Him to be merciful to us and provide His Sustaining Grace and Divine Favor to deliver us from our finite self and Trust in His Grace and will for His Divine favor upon us in His good pleasure to choose us to be His Servant, and for us to do His will, not that God is to do our will; We are His servant, He does not wait around for us to do our will. God was not David’s servant to do David’s will, but David was God’s Servant to do God’s will.

Even though God appointed David as king to shepherd his people Israel; David in his psalm 23, while being King, declared that the Lord was His shepherd He shall not want. David learned that he was God’s sheep, and that God was His great Shepherd, and in discovering the aseity of God, David, learned to also, declare that he shall not want for he found in God the attribute of God’s aseity; that in seeing God as being the Great I Am and not needing anything from man or this world or its resources; David discovered the aseity of God always being; God having His energy within Himself, and drawing unending energy within Himself; David could declare that the Lord is His Shepherd and he trusted in God who was, Is always shall be, and having His energy within Himself drawing unending energy within His own being; always having such an unending resource of life within the being of the triune God—Indeed, God who never sleeps, who never grows tired or weary, Who is the source of all life, resources and prosperity, Such a Great God could only cause David to cry out with great elation, “ The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want!” Psalm 23

King David had good intentions, after He was settled in his palace of Cedar, he saw the Ark of the Covenant still under a Tent! He sought out Nathan the prophet in expression of his pressing concern, and Nathan advised him according to his insight without details of God’s revealed will, and said, Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you “

The will of man is met with good intentions apart from God’s plan and purposes; and with such good intentions, we seek to pursue our will and plans over God’s Will.After the expression of man’s will, God does speak His word, to thwart the will of man with good intentions that His Kingdom come, His will be done over the will of man. And good intentions will never build a stairway to Heaven, for the pathway to Hell is paved with good intentions and Hell is full of people who lived with Good intentions in mind.

The work of building God’s Church is the Work of God Himself, in the Person of His Son, we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works that we should walk in them in what God prepared in advance for us to walk in, His purposes ordained for me, indeed tried and true:
Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

The field needs harvesting, it is God’s field and it is God’s purpose and plans that will be revealed in His timing. We may not like the turn of events in the present and would seek to have good intentions to try and change the turn of events, but in the End, it is God’s will that prevails and thwart man's good intentions!