At his news conference the morning after the beginning of the 2003 attacks on Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked by a reporter "about the apparent failure to follow the war plan." Rumsfeld replied dryly, "I don't believe you have the war plan."

We often approach God with a question like the reporter's— why doesn't he follow the plan we expect? As God told Job, and countless others since then, "I don't believe you have the plan."