Monday, March 12, 2018

Questions for God

Greetings:
Have you ever wondered what question or questions you might have for God, if you were presented the opportunity to ask them?
We have to remember that God's ways are higher than our ways, but the question is, “If you could ask God any question, what would it be?"
Why is there so much evil and suffering in the world?
Will God really forgive all of my sins?
What does the future hold for me?
What does God want from me?
Why do some people, even ungodly people, get healed, while others, some who are believers, still suffer with terrible diseases?
I was doing some reading recently and came across this beautiful response to some of these questions from the late C.S. Lewis in his book, “Mere Christianity”.
He states, “People say, "I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the devil of Hell. You must take your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon, or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
We have to stand on what it says in Proverbs 3:5-6, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take."
That doesn't mean we are stupid or naive about life and circumstances.  It means we have to trust and have faith that God's ways are truly higher than what we can understand. We must believe that God does have a plan and it might not always go as we have planned for, hoped for or even prayed for.
That is where we stand on the Word of God and believe each of his promises.
It is called faith. We can not see it, taste it, feel it, but it is there, if we believe.
While there are many other questions that intelligent people might ask about God, these are some of the principal ones that could become intellectual roadblocks to those who are truly seeking to know the truth about God.
So what other questions would you have?
Be blessed.


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