He Will Answer
There may be a misconception among some that faith involves no questions. Faith is just believing without asking why, or how, or where. To an extent I believe this is true, but at the same time when we go to the Bible we begin to realize that this is not always true. I thought of that verse in the Bible where Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” It doesn’t tell us what kind of labor people may be under. It doesn’t give us specifics on what is causing the heavy load. Could it be questions, maybe? Could it be doubt, maybe? I think we can safely say that Jesus is telling us that whatever is causing this laboring, this heaviness, we can bring it to Him and He will give us rest.
Some may find it easy to just believe without questioning. For others that is not quite so. When you go to the Bible you will find heroes of faith, as it were, people who were used by God, who followed after God with all their heart, you find them bringing their questions about situations and circumstances and problems and burdens to God. Abraham questioned about the fact that a child would be born to him and Sarah in their old age. Moses had questions for God. David wrote many Psalms which were full of questions for God. Even Jesus asked questions when He was in the throes of extreme suffering and pain. Peter questioned God. And on and on we could probably go with others who brought their questions to God because they didn’t understand; they didn’t know what to do; they had some doubts or some confusion.
It would seem to me that the tenor of all that we see throughout Scripture doesn’t necessarily discourage our questioning but actually encourages us to bring those question we have to the One who can truly give us the answers or truly give us rest concerning what we are facing. As someone said, “The good news is that God is big enough to handle our questions.”
We serve a God who desires for us to come to Him. And it doesn’t matter the situation; it doesn’t matter the time. He just wants us to come to Him. We can do that while sitting in church or we can do that while driving the car, or shopping or washing dishes or mowing the lawn or hiking in the woods. We can just bring whatever it is we are laboring under and lay it all at the feet of Jesus and He specifically told us He would give us rest. He will give us peace. He will answer us, maybe not according to the way we might want Him to, but we will hear from Him and whatever we hear will bring that rest we need!