What is in a question?
For those of you who have small children, questions can seem to take on a demanding task. Why is that? Where did it come from? How did it get there? Who is that? Questions and more questions. These are questions that are not challenging or designed to discredit the one bringing the answer. These questions bring the understanding that shapes our lives. It is in these questions that we discover the answers our heart longs to discover. It is also in questions that Jesus connected to our heart as seen in Mark 10:51. “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. The blind man answered, “Rabbi, I want to see.”
Too often we have heard, “When we get to heaven we will find out.” My favorite (not really) is, “His ways are just higher than our ways.” How about the quotation from I Corinthians 2:9, where Paul is quoting Isaiah, “However, as it is written: “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” Basically we have been told, “Just do what I say and don’t ask questions.”
Good News
Well, our Father has good news in Mathew 7:7. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” In addition, Paul reveals truth about the mysteries that have been hidden in I Corinthians 2:10, “But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.” What we find out is God is not keeping secrets, but is actually trying to bring answers to your deepest questions of the heart. The questions that pertain to all that the Father has prepared for you.
What is found in the right question? The answer.
