Questions For God

God told us everything we needed to know in His wonderful guidebook, the Bible. But we have many questions that seem to have no answers. If we listen to children we hear their repeated questions about creation and heaven. My grandchildren and I talked one day about what we might ask God when we get to heaven. Here are some of our questions with a few others thrown in.

How did You make so many stars? Why did You make gnats and why did You say that they were good? What was it like before You made the world? Why did Jesus curse that poor fig tree for not having figs when it was not the fig season? Why do so many really good people die even when they are young while really bad people live on and on? How did Jesus make 5,000 people hear Him when He spoke from that boat? How did You talk Noah into building a boat when he’d never even seen rain? How did You make every zebra with a different pattern, and every leaf unique? Does everybody have an angel? Why did You have to sacrifice Your only Son so our sins could be wiped out? Wasn’t there any other way?

Understanding that before God there was nothing, that nobody made God, is hard. Understanding that God literally spoke the stars into being is equally difficult. Unless one has faith in God Who is beyond our understanding all of creation is unfathomable. Repeatedly I have told children that if we could understand everything about God, we would be God–and that isn’t going to happen. Some things we simply cannot know or understand this side of heaven. I think we may not completely understand even then. Our God is so very big and awesome.

We should encourage questions. God is large enough to take all our questions, just the way He did Job’s. It’s been said that one who questions God, in his heart believes there is a God. The best place to go for answers is the Bible, His revelation to us with truths deeper than the ocean. But sometimes it can be so confusing! It’s good to be able to hear Christians explain passages to us. They have the Holy Spirit to guide them. Sometimes, like Job, we have to accept that God is God and we cannot understand everything.

Billy Graham, Charles Spurgeon, Billy Sunday, Beth Moore, Charles Stanley, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Mary the mother of Jesus–all have or had questions that were not answered. Franklin Graham recently, while urging us all to read our Bibles, said that no, he does not understand it all, but he believes it all.

What are your questions? Don’t be afraid to ask God.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matt. 7:7