JUST ASKING

By Rick Mathes

1 Timothy 3:9 (NASB77) ⁹   but holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

There are a lot of things we are expected to accept and believe by faith that we really can’t understand. John MacArthur Jr. wrote a book, “Hard to Believe” and he was right on. The first question I would have for Jesus would be, “Why did you allow wickedness?” What was it in Adam that prompted him to join Eve in disobedience to God’s command?

I think a great question among others is, “What is prosperity?” Do more toys really signal your prosperity or does the tail wag the dog? In other words, why should we work harder to get more money to buy more things that we don’t need to leave to those who don’t deserve them? Is worth it? It seems to me that the more I have the less time I have to enjoy getting more things that take more time to maintain. Whew!

How about our new birth? Can you explain definitively what “born again” means? What hand did providence have in this? Let me ask you what did God’s foreknowledge have on His predestination?

Have you ever given any thought to your future life? Where will you spend eternity, in heaven, in hell, in Purgatory? Guess what? There isn’t a purgatory so you can scratch that Roman Catholic invention off your possibility list.

What is a union with Christ? Is it physical, mental, spiritual, just what dos being in one with Christ mean? What happens when I exchange all that I am for all that He is? What happens to what I used to be?

Just how did an all-knowing, all-powerful and all-present God become a newborn infant? How sis Mary even get pregnant with the aid of a man?

And let’s not forget that it’s hard to believe God became man and suffered at the hands of His creation. How amazing is the Passion Week for Jesus and Father God? The sky turned black when the Father separated from the Son and let Him die a man. How can a dead man command life to return to His body? I know this much, just because I don’t understand is doesn’t mean that God doesn’t know it.