Questioning God...
Jul 28, 2014 15:43:58 GMT -7
Post by Akua on Jul 28, 2014 15:43:58 GMT -7
Should we be ashamed of questioning God?
I ask this question because I know a lot of young people, myself included x 1000, sometimes feel like we have to apologize for asking God why, or when, or how things are going to pan out in this world. If we're not apologizing, then we feel ashamed and a little unsavory for asking such brash questions of the God of our everything.
Earlier this week, during a Bible study/group discussion I prefaced one of my questions with "This is going to sound really bad... but why did God allow for this plane crash and this natural disaster and this sickness?" During church the other day I brought up the argument that since God is the Creator and Master of our Universe, did having to craft the plan of salvation around man's mistake and man's short-fallings diminish His sovereign glory in any way? But of course, I wouldn't, couldn't bring up this argument before I said something along the lines of, "I feel really bad for even questioning this..."
In Psalms, David had questions. David had tons of questions. This site explains it better than I do, but we can see that even a man of favor like David was able to respectfully question God and suffered no consequence. Is it a part of our "Christian subculture" that kind of hushes us not questioning, and just having faith above all else, above all questions? While I do agree that faith is so so so essential in building that trusting relationship with God, is it wrong to question him in a respectful manner? Now that man has eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3), can we even blame ourselves for being curious about these things? From our finite brains to His infinite presence, there are just so many things that we, as humans, can't naturally understand... so should we just wallow in our lack of understanding?
Or should we question Him?
I ask this question because I know a lot of young people, myself included x 1000, sometimes feel like we have to apologize for asking God why, or when, or how things are going to pan out in this world. If we're not apologizing, then we feel ashamed and a little unsavory for asking such brash questions of the God of our everything.
Earlier this week, during a Bible study/group discussion I prefaced one of my questions with "This is going to sound really bad... but why did God allow for this plane crash and this natural disaster and this sickness?" During church the other day I brought up the argument that since God is the Creator and Master of our Universe, did having to craft the plan of salvation around man's mistake and man's short-fallings diminish His sovereign glory in any way? But of course, I wouldn't, couldn't bring up this argument before I said something along the lines of, "I feel really bad for even questioning this..."
In Psalms, David had questions. David had tons of questions. This site explains it better than I do, but we can see that even a man of favor like David was able to respectfully question God and suffered no consequence. Is it a part of our "Christian subculture" that kind of hushes us not questioning, and just having faith above all else, above all questions? While I do agree that faith is so so so essential in building that trusting relationship with God, is it wrong to question him in a respectful manner? Now that man has eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3), can we even blame ourselves for being curious about these things? From our finite brains to His infinite presence, there are just so many things that we, as humans, can't naturally understand... so should we just wallow in our lack of understanding?
Or should we question Him?