Unanswered Questions

A friend commented to me “remember when you said you had learned to live with unanswered questions? I’m not there yet! How do you get there?” At the time I was not sure how to answer. It had taken me awhile and was a growing realization.

Today while mowing the grass it occurred to me that there were some underlying assumptions that God used to bring me to this “contentment”.

If God is indeed like who He reveals Himself to be then it stands to reason that there are things about Him that are inexplicable. Could the creature completely comprehend the mind that created? Blue, eagles, the smell of honeysuckles, sound of the snow falling in the forest…I enjoy these but did not conceive them. Galaxies, sunflowers, sex…get my point. There is a wonder to God that defies explanation. The only true response is worship.

Another assumption is that in Christ God told me what I most needed to know. Are You good, do You love me, do the people of this world matter to You? Christ Jesus is Himself the answer to my unanswered questions. “I don’t know” can always be prefaced with “I do know He loves me more real and deeply than I can imagine. If what I see now does not look like love then I go to the cross and the empty tomb.”

I would not diminish those struggling with unanswered questions; indeed I still wrestle with God sometimes to understand Him. However I now view that as an element of a healthy friendship.