QUESTIONS THAT GOD ASKS

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Most people prefer answers to questions. The reason is simple: answers invite rest. Conversely, questions invite thought and mental engagement. Questions are problems that awaken us from celebration to digging deeper to find solutions and explanations. 

Do you love questions or answers? 

Our education systems have made us feel that the smartest among us are those who can solve the most challenging questions. While this is true because one needs well-preserved and endowed grey-and-white matter to handle questions, I look at this issue more radically. I  am in this school of thought that values questions more than answers. 

So permit me to opine that the most intelligent person in the room is not the one with the most answers but the one with the best questions. When we ask wrong questions and answer them correctly, we create more problems. The best questions are not the toughest but lead people to the proper thought process and solutions.  Quality questions are considered one of the best ways of helping people grasp essential concepts. 

Even in everyday interactions, people who do not know how to ask quality questions are not attractive to converse with. Most relationships die away because of this. An average person asks their loved ones three questions: “How was your night? How has your day been? Have you eaten?” After that, they go blank and surrender with this boring announcement of defeat: “Now tell me.” While there are subtle nuances in personality and temperaments, much of it is mental indolence.  

This background is enough. You are ready for the series I want to run for the next several Tuesdays in The Cleaver. I am interested in questions that God asks people in the Bible. Nothing beats questions that God asks people in the sacred pages. Some of God’s most important lessons for us were hidden in questions.

Here are some of the questions we want to consider:

1. Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:9)
2. “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” (Genesis 3:11)
3. And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” (Genesis 3:13)
4. So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?  (Genesis 4:6)
5. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” (Genesis 4:9)

And many, many more…

Stay tuned; let us learn more from the series—Questions God Ask.