A Moment Aside --- 2 March 2021
When we
have questions, we might feel inadequate or even unfaithful. Questions are not
something we’re altogether comfortable with, yet there are so many questions to
be faced in our lives. “Is what I’m doing worthwhile?” “What happens now?” Why
did this happen to her?” “I don’t like these circumstances; why was this allowed?”
This is
always a struggle and we may feel that our questions reflect a lack of faith.
Still the opposite of faith is not doubt, but knowing. Faith takes us step by
step into the unknown. (I’ve always felt that there is light provided for us on
our quest for/with God, but only in two places: light on the ultimate goal and
light on the next step. Other than that, everything remains in the dark.)
Questions
do not show us to be unfaithful. In fact, they show us to have the desire to go
deeper and come to a fuller understanding of what things are all about.
Questions prove that we are taking things seriously rather than shrugging
things off as ‘given.’
To think
or believe that we have all the answers already can lead us in two specific
directions. If we have all the answers, there is no need to look further and no
growth is possible since no change or further, deeper understanding would be
needed. Secondly if we have all the answers, we might also be setting ourselves
up for tremendous disappointment if somehow those answers we had mastered prove
to be inadequate. If that should be the case, our entire world could come
crashing down.
God will
always remain a mystery, to be explored but ever solved. There is always more
about God to be revealed. When it comes to the reality of God, we cannot
have all the answers; God will always remain beyond our understanding. The
knowledge we seem to have inflates and insulates us, while the questions we
have before God give God the opportunity to be more for us… whether or not we
wish to see that.
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