What is Not, Will Not

Isaiah 22:16
16What are you doing here and who gave you permission to cut out a grave for yourself here, hewing your grave on the height and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

Isaiah was commanded to go to King Hezekiah's palace. There he found a man named Shebna who though a foreigner, had been put in charge of the palace second only to the king. But Shebna coveted something that was never meant to be his. He coveted being buried in a tomb made for a king. Though he had been given charge of the palace, he misused his privilege and began cutting out his own grave as if he were a king. Isaiah was sent by the Lord to declare to Shebna that God would remove him from his position and because he coveted something that God didn't intend for him to have, he would then not receive an honorable burial according to the NIV Study Bible. Shebna's place of burial was still to be among commoners unless King Hezekiah made provision for him. But instead of leaving that up to the king he took it upon himself to presume that he deserved what had not even been offered to him. Shebna assumed that he would be a permanent fixture when it was not declared by the king or the Lord that it was to be. If God hasn't declared something for you then it's not for you. Like Shebna, many of us covet or want things that don't belong to us. But we think because we want them, then it must be. But it's God who has the final say as to what shall be ours. He is the creator of heaven, earth and below. He is the giver of every good and perfect gift. Not everything is for everyone. We can easily lose sight of this fact in the microwave, all-about-me society we live in. What God has for you is for you. But what is not, will not. And if one doesn't appreciate what God has given, even that shall be taken away.