Growing up I was, always, taught not to question God. I was to follow what He says, blindly, and do what I was told. God has our plan, and we must trust in Him.
Ok, will do.
I have spent my life trying to do that, and I feel that is one of the mail reasons I dealt so well with my mothers death. I was 10 when she died. It was God’s plan, and who was I to question it? My father said it best (and, yes, I later thanked him) when he told me that my mothers time on Earth was over and that she would now go to work in the Kingdom of Heaven for God. Well, Ok. Who can argue with that?
Almost 20 years later I began REALLY going to church, again, after spending some time away. I never left God, I just didn’t spend my Sunday mornings at church. At this new church, you could imagine my surprise when everyone started talking about it being OK to question God, and to question the bad (and good) things that happen in our lives.
Huh?? I spent a lot of time trying to figure this out. At first I blew it off. It must be a mistake… However, it kept coming up…It’s OK to question God, they would say. It was even said that He WANTED us to question. So, I did what any good steward would do, and I tried to be open minded. I tried to see it that way. It’s OK, huh?? I even wondered, at one point, if I had made my memories up in my head… Perhaps, I hadn’t REALLY been taught that?
I just couldn’t do it.
Eventually, I decided that it must just be a difference in the denomination. It must just be part of what this particular denomination believes, and I could deal with that. It was no biggie.
The more I have thought about it, and read the Bible, I have grown more, and more, to believe that I, in fact, should NOT question God. (That, and my sister, just the other day, corroborated my memories of church and the teaching of not questioning God. I wasn’t nuts, I thought!)
Besides the fact that questioning God gets us nowhere, except in the loony bin, God demands our obedience. So far, in what I have read from the Bible, no where does it say that God asked someone to do something and then gave time to question, and ponder, the reasoning behind it. He says go and do.
Mark 1:16-20New International Version (NIV)
Jesus Calls His First Disciples
“At Once” and “Without Delay”, this is how God wants us to follow.
He wants us NOW. When he says come, He wants us to COME. When He says do, He wants us to do. We must believe in Him and do as He says.
Imagine if Noah had questioned God in Genesis 6: 11-22:
22Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Noah didn’t try to get God to change His mind, or give more chances. “Noah did everything just as God commanded him.”
If Noah can build the Ark and get all those animals on it, can we not follow a few simple rules?
In the beginning, there was chaos. God made order from the chaos and created the Earth; the Earth and everything on it. He made us from the Earth. He gave us everything we needed to live, even rules. These rules were put in place to help keep the order that He had made. God’s rules, not man’s.
Have you ever noticed that when man begins to follow what he wants, instead of doing what God wants, order begins to turn back into chaos?
Matthew 18:2-4New International Version (NIV)
He has called us to follow Him. Trust and believe He knows what He is doing.
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