Asking The Questions God Delights To Answer

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless.
Titus 3:9

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Can God make a rock so big that he cannot move it? Where did Cain get his wife?

Such questions produce only endless speculation—and far more heat than light!

Paul admonished both Timothy and Titus to avoid the kind of questions that serve no useful purpose but only detract from the weightier questions and pursuits of the Christian life.

Charles Spurgeon points the way to another set of questions for the child of God to consider.

WALK WITH CHARLES SPURGEON
“Our business is neither to ask nor answer foolish questions, but to avoid them altogether. And if we observe the apostle’s precept to be careful to maintain good works, we shall find ourselves far too occupied with profitable business to take interest in unworthy and needless quarrels.

“There are, however, some questions which are the reverse of foolish, which we must not avoid, but fairly and honestly meet, such as these: Do I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ? Am I renewed in the spirit of my mind? Am I walking, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit? Am I growing in grace? Am I looking for the coming of the Lord?

“Such inquiries as these urgently demand our attention; and if we have all been given to making excuses, let us now turn our attention to a service much more profitable. Let us be peacemakers and endeavor to lead others both by our precept and example, to avoid foolish questions.”

WALK CLOSER TO GOD
Every Christian has a growing list of questions that yearn for answers this side of heaven. Good questions. Questions God may see fit to answer … someday. But in the meantime, you might want to ask yourself one question: “When I meet God face to face, what will be my answers to the questions he will have for me?”