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When I was a little girl and questions were a large part of my day I would ask my mother a questions and she would respond {in rather a smart-aleck tone}: \u201cAsk me no questions and I\u2019ll tell you no lies.\u201d\u00a0 Profound.\u00a0 I know. {rolling my eyes}\u00a0 It didn\u2019t take me long to figure out, when she answered thus, there would either be no answer from her to my question or the answer was \u201cno\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t get many answers from her that I could use; however, I did get quite a few examples of what not to say and, I suppose, from her actions I saw many answers to my questions that she gave without realizing.<\/span><\/p>\n I hadn\u2019t thought about that quote for some time until the past couple of weeks. I\u2019ve been pondering questions and answers since my Bible Study leader made this statement:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGod is not afraid of our questions but we may be afraid of His answers.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And then, this week in my notes on the lesson came this gem:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPressure from changes and threats in personal life or the world around them make people look for answers<\/em>.<\/span>\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That quote came on the heels of this verse:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWatch out that no one deceives you.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Matthew 24:4.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The wheels started turning just about then and I began to think about what it is I question and who I ask for the answers. My mother is no longer around to \u201cnot\u201d answer my questions. I am no longer a child who asks those childish questions either. Somewhere in the middle, between my child\u2019s mind full of questions and my mother\u2019s non-answers, lies the \u201canswers\u201d to questions I still have.<\/span><\/p>\n I realized as I began to grow up that I had to ask questions of myself. First the basics: What? Why? How? Where? When? Who? And then more complex questions that brought me back to the basics. And most of the time I didn\u2019t get the answer. Because I didn\u2019t have the answer and no one else did either. Like being on a merry-go-round.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I came to the conclusion that I can take all my questions to God. He has the answers to all of my questions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOh, but, You don\u2019t want to bother Him with that\u2026(insert any subject here).\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t want all of your questions. It\u2019s impertinent to ask God questions<\/em>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n So you say.<\/span><\/p>\n Pardon me, but He does want me to ask questions and keep asking! If I choose to seek Him and to look for the wisdom that is there in His Word I will get the right answer at the right time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n No, I\u2019m not talking about answers to the next physics question in the book or what\u2019s on TV tonight. It\u2019s really much bigger and better than we could imagine.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2019Aha<\/em>\u2018 moments abound.<\/span><\/p>\n Answers to what really matters. Like: Who is God? Who am I? Why Jesus? What does He want from me, really?\u00a0 Who can I trust? What am I supposed to do with my life? How do I know whether it\u2019s true, right or correct?<\/span><\/p>\n All these answers and more He will answer.\u00a0 Simplistic? No.\u00a0 Just Simple. We tend to make things hard on ourselves, don\u2019t we?<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong>Matthew 6:7-8<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong>James 1:5-6<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us\u00a0\u2013 whatever we ask\u00a0\u2013 we know that we have what we asked of him.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong>1 John 5:14-15<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n How about your questions? where do you find answers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was a little girl and questions were a large part of my day I would ask my mother a questions and she would respond {in rather a smart-aleck tone}: \u201cAsk me no questions and I\u2019ll tell you no lies.\u201d\u00a0 Profound.\u00a0 I know. {rolling my eyes}\u00a0 It didn\u2019t take me long to figure … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[112,9,113,111,27],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ask","tag-faith","tag-prayer","tag-questions","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}