Ask the Questions

Psalm 13:1-2a, ESV [a Psalm of David]

How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? 

Psalm 42:9, ESV 

I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Psalm 139:23

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 

Luke 7:18b-20, ESV [When John the Baptist is in prison]

And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” And when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?’”

‭‭John‬ ‭16‬:‭19‬, ‭ESV‬‬

Jesus knew that they [the disciples] wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?”

Ask God your questions. 

Hold nothing back. Confess your questions. Confess your feelings. Confess your frustrations.

To withhold our questions from the Lord is to close a part of our heart to Him. Just as with any other relationship, when there are unanswered questions—or unspoken pain and frustration between us and someone we love—distance grows. 

The same is true in our relationship with God.

God knows the deepest questions of our hearts already, but when we bring them to Him, something happens in us—because He meets us there. 

And, whatever is exposed to the light becomes a light (Ephesians 5:13). People often only associate that verse with sin—because that’s the literal context of the verse—but it can also be applied to everything else which lives within the recesses of our heart. When we expose our questions, pain, frustrations, etc. to the Light, then those things lose their power of darkness over us and become a light!

So bring it all to the Light.

God welcomes our questions—and He answers our questions. Sometimes He answers them directly, sometimes He answers with other promises, scriptures, or instructions to trust Him, and sometimes He answers simply with His presence. But, He always answers.

This seems like such an obvious concept (to ask God our questions), but the truth is that we rarely make the time to do it—if ever. Yet, it’s so important in our relationship with Him.

So this week, let’s be intentional to ask God the deepest questions of our heart. He’s not only willing to answer—He’s eager to answer.