What comes first, the question or the answer?
In this world, it seems we are overwhelmed with answers to
questions we have never even thought to ask.
We are bombarded with information via all sorts of media
including radio, television, the internet, newspapers and magazines.
These are but a few of the vehicles that bring an almost
infinite number of answers to questions that perhaps we have never
really formed ourselves.
Day after day, week after week and year after year of
exposure to these unsolicited answers begins to mold our minds to
searching for the questions to match up with these answers that
continue to come our way.
Considering that the answers are coming from this world,
the world of the flesh, it is reasonable to conclude that the
questions will thereby be of this world as well, leaving us full of
questions of the flesh that we perhaps never thought to ask with
answers of the flesh that will lead to the rewards of the flesh.
Regardless of where a question originates, the flesh or the
spirit, answers will be of no use to us if we have not yet formed
the questions that bring about these answers.
If we receive answers to questions we have not yet
developed in our hearts and minds, the most perfect answer will at
best lead to confusion and more probably not even be recognized.
We will meet this answer with a blank stare on our face,
or depending on our heart, rebellion. This holds true in all areas
of our life.
How often have you been perplexed because you provided a
child, a spouse, a friend or a co-worker with what you KNOW is the
correct answer for the matter at hand, yet they are unable to accept
and understand your answer?
In our relationship with
Abba
YHVH, He does
not wish for us to be confused, so He will never bring forth an
answer that we have not first formed the proper question for in our
hearts.
Some might equate this with Him keeping secrets.
Not so!
It is
Abba’s Desire that He can call us friends and share with
us the plans He has for us.
Remember, He is our Loving Father, Perfect in all ways.
Therefore, He does not wish for us to be confused by
answers that we will not understand that would lead our hearts and
minds to begin spinning in circles and therefore take our eyes off
the Straight and Narrow Path that He has prepared for all those that
know and love Him.
Seeking with our whole heart is what will lead us to begin to ask
the questions that will bring us into a relationship with our
Creator, and once in this relationship, will draw us as close to Him
as our hearts desire.
Remember when we were children, how curious we were about almost
everything, always asking our parents questions, and then responding
to their Our hearts were pure and humble, and our minds were simple
and not filled with the distractions brought about by the
information overload of this world.
We awoke each morning full of questions, looking forward
with anticipation to another day that would provide the answers that
we so longed to hear.
We were unconcerned that we did not have all these answers to
begin our day.
We did not arise each morning with the desire to have
every moment of our lives planned out to the second, having
everything under control.
With our pure and simple heart and mind, we simply let the
day lead us where it would and we followed, unbothered by all the
little details of this world.
Have you ever thought about how a child learns?
How is it that a child can grow from a newborn baby, into
an infant, then a toddler, and then into a little boy or girl and
learn all that is learned in those years without having the
information and knowledge that is necessary to do so?
Certainly this child is reliant on his or her parents for
this instruction, but what tools does this child have, other than a
pure heart and simple mind, to make sense of all this instruction
and begin to eventually separate the right from the wrong?
Could this be what our Loving Father means when He instructs us
to come to Him as children?
Can we possibly understand the answers that He has
prepared for us since before Bereshit if our hearts and minds are
filled with the distractions of this world and therefore are unable
to even begin to form the necessary questions?
Can we humble our hearts, and wipe out the distractions of
our mind, so that we can follow the Perfect Instruction of our
Loving Father?
Can we return to the days of our youth when we strived to
follow instead of lead?
Is it possible that the Creator of the Universe actually desires a
close, interpersonal relationship with us and He gave us all that we
needed to respond to His Invitation when we were born into this
world?
If this is true, why does it seem so many people today are not
asking the questions that will lead to the eternal life that many
claim to be searching for?
Perhaps some are caught asleep in Churchianity, following
after the traditions of men long dead?
Are some confused into thinking they are living under His
Grace, while actually living under His Mercy?
Others perhaps have become so accustomed to life in exile
that they wish not to return to their first estate, although the
price has been paid and the invitation is now open for them to do
so?
Could it be that although the veil we call the flesh speaks one
thing, the spirit of that person already knows and is comfortable
with whom they have been following? So many possible reasons with
only one end that was spoken from the beginning for all to hear.
Questions and Answers.
Our Loving Father,
Abba
YHVH, is
waiting to share His Perfect Answers.
All we must do is search our hearts for the questions.
Dale
June 25, 2008