Lesson #11 Ask God Your Hardest Questions

One thing I have learned that has set me free in many ways, is that I can and ought to take my hardest questions to the King.  Some might suggest we should not question God.  Some might think it is disobedient to ask difficult, messy, embarrassing, impossible questions of the One who rules the world. But I say, this is precisely the reason we MUST ask Him those questions.  Who else on earth is going to be able to answer you?

If the Bible tells us that it is all a bit of a blur, that no one can really see things clearly (for now we see things in a mirror dimly; now we know in part - 1 Corinthians 12:13)  and the Bible tells us that humans can't really know the reasons why things happen because we can't think like God (As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your and my thoughts higher than your thoughts, says the Lord- Isaiah 55:9) then why do we think we can go to our pastors, our friends, and our family to get answers to our toughest questions?

They don't know any more than we know!  We all have blurred vision.  So, what do we do with our questions?  Stuff them down so deep they rarely surface?  Get really busy with something to avoid noticing they have surfaced?  Berate ourselves for thinking such thoughts?

No, we gotta ask the questions!   Don't you ever wonder?  Why did that child die?  What makes sense that a great daddy is taken from a family too soon?  Where is the mercy in a chronic illness?  How come a woman who desperately wants a child is infertile? Why her? Why him?  Why me?  Why not me?

I have had my share of questions over the years.  One of them centered around a prayer for healing that was answered with death, instead.  Another tough question focused on a hard life where the woman never seemed to have had the opportunity to dance, and what kind of life is it where you never dance? Another big question of mine has to do with a great dad who got cancer and depression and left this world never having much good happen between the diagnosis and the grave.

Where can you go with those questions?  Get really busy and stay really busy and ride the train called "Avoidance" as long as it is on the tracks.  If it stops, get on the next train named, "Distraction"  It'll drive you no where - but you'll get there fast!

How about we stop.  We get off the crazy train.  We sit.  We still our souls.  We let the questions resurface.  And we ask God.  And keep asking until we find some sort of satisfaction.  We may not get the answers, but I know we get peace.  The peace that surpasses all understanding.  The peace that doesn't make sense amid the questions.  You gotta keep asking!  And you gotta sit still long enough to hear His answers.  Be still and know that He is God- Psalm 46:10.

I know that it is absolutely OK to ask God the impossible questions.  How do I know this?  Because Jesus asked God a really hard question and if Jesus can do it, so can we!  As He hung on the cross, tortured, and in anguish, He asked it.  The really hard question!  "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?" Why have you left me all alone?  WHERE ARE YOU GOD?

Have you ever asked that?  Good for you!  Just be sure you don't run off before He has time to speak to your heart and your soul.  Those things take time.  And you have to get off the train before you'll hear Him.