Food for thought

My mom and little brother, Ryan, were sitting on the couch together this morning. Mom held a plate and a doughnut which i beleive she was saving for someone. Ryan reached for it, and of course Mom stopped him. he looked up at her with a puzzled face and asked, "Is it bad?" He just assumed that if it had not gone bad, and it tasted good, his mother would want him to have it. he didn't understand that she was saving this perfectly good doughut for someone else.
As I thought about what I had seen, it struck me that, often times, this is exactly the way we are before God. We see a job opportunity, a possible future spouse, or anything perfectly good and desirable, and God says no. In these times we usually either become bitter at Him, or we say, "Well, it's probably harmfull in a way I can't see right now, and God is protecting me." That could be the case, but who are we to assume there is just something wrong with anything we can't have?

What if we dared to think that there was nothing whatever harmfull in the object of our desire, exect that it's not meant for us?