Seeking answers to my questions from the Lord, in Sacred Scripture, is, without question, the appropriate thing to do. However, it is also appropriate to question my questions.
Jesus' responses to the questions posed to Him by the people He encountered, are instructive. Often, His response to someone's question was either another question, or, an answer to a question the individual never asked. How is that instructive? Since He knows my needs better than I know them myself, it tells me that I might well be wrong in thinking that I need an answer to that particular question, at that specific time. Further, it tells me that there is likely an answer I do need, to a question I haven't even recognized, let alone asked.
When I stubbornly persist in asking the wrong questions...seeking answers I've wrongly determined that I "need," I only succeed in setting myself up for increasing frustration, diminishing hope and weakening faith. Instead, I should consider that perhaps the lack of a forthcoming answer to my question means that I should be quiet, and listen for the "answer" my Lord is trying to give me...the one that answers the question I should have been asking all along...the answer I truly need...not the answer I want. Often, He is working to draw my focus away from what I see as my need, to see Him...to fix my eyes on Him, Who alone is the answer to my every need...
No comments:
Post a Comment