Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. – Matt 7:7 (NKJV)
QUESTIONS – PART 3
The last few days we’ve been talking about asking questions and getting understanding! God doesn't want to look like lemmings who follow Him without question, despite how the Bible has been interpreted.
God wants you to use your brain as much as your faith. In fact, Jesus tells the parable of the talents where 3 different servants are given a measure of the Master’s wealth. To the ones who invest his money and multiply it he says “Well done good and FAITHFUL servant. You have been FAITHFUL…” Those servants didn’t blindly follow a set of instructions. They use their intellect, wisdom and experience to increase what they had been given.
But the servant who did not earn a return on the Master’s investment says “I was afraid and I buried your money…at least you get that back…”
Fear is one of the primary causes we won’t ask questions. Whether it’s fear of looking stupid or that we’ll get into trouble for asking too many questions.
God has not given us a spirit of fear BUT power love and a sound mind. I always say it’s ‘crazy talk' to be motivated by fear in God’s economy. Faith should lead us to ‘sound' thought processes.
When you find yourself too scared to ask a question you have to ask yourself, “Is the fear my problem? Or is the culture of the workplace/family/environment using fear to prevent me from asking a question?” If it’s your problem, you have to find a way to get over it and work hard against it. Fear will have you bury what God has intended you to multiply.
But if fear is a tool of the environment to stop you from finding out more; asking harder and deeper questions, then you must ask yourself, “is God really in this? Does God not want me to know the answer to this?”
Asking hard questions can confront people’s realities HOWEVER God is so much bigger than our minuscule minds can make Him. It’s time for us to resist fear, and the uncertainty that asking some hard questions may dig up.
What it may dig up is a lack of profit for our buried talents!
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