The government is in a shut down mode. The debt ceiling needs to be raised or the USA will default on it's debt. Global economic chaos is in the offing. We stand in the midst of this self created grave situation and wonder where is God in all this?
Jesus has an interesting dialogue going with the Sadducees and Pharisees in Matthew 22. Each time one group tries to trip Jesus up with a question, His answers leave them stunned. Try as they might to test The Lord, they come up short each and every time. their attempts to catch Jesus in a snare of human logic are so pitiful in comparison to the knowledge of The Lord. Which brings me to ask a question of myself and for you to ask yourself. What question would I ask Jesus if I had the opportunity to ask Him face to face?
The possible questions to ask are limitless when you stop to think about it. They could range from "Why did You wither the fig tree? all the way to "Did you ever have second thoughts about who you called to be disciples?" Really, there are a ton of possible questions to ask. Then seriously, what would you or I ask that we cannot already glean from Scriptures? We know what are His directions for us. We are told to love God with all our heart, our mind and our strength. We are told to love one another as we love ourselves. In John 13:34 He tells us to "Love one another. as I have loved you, so you must love one another." This kind of love is a love that transcends mortal love, it is a complete and everlasting love. And finally we are commissioned to go and make disciples of all nations and baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. If we are worried about making it to heaven we already know it is by grace we are saved, through faith (Ephesians 2:8). I guess all the big questions have answers we can read for ourselves. So what ever we ask is going to seem pretty trivial in nature. So, spending a lot of time pondering this is not really time well spent.
But still, knowing the answers to the big questions have been given I still a have one to ask. Maybe you guessed it giving my love for the water. "Jesus, what was it like to walk on water?" It may be a stupid question to ask, but when the important ones have answers already out there, that is what you get from this simple minded person. Be glad that we already have His thoughts and words in Scriptures to guide us when we have questions. May your time reading the Word of God be blessed.
PRAYER: Father of all creation, You have given us Your Word to guide us, comfort us, and sustain us. We have this Word in times of plenty and times of little. We have comfort when we seek comfort. And when we doubt You are near, we have only to look at what You have given us in scripture to find You are next to us always. Thank you for loving us when we do not deserve Your love. And thank You for Your Son Jesus Christ for it is in His name that we offer this prayer, Amen.
