Questions and more questions

I am sitting here with right now with my good friend Josh. I like Josh.
He drinks coffee with me...
He reads with me...
He walks with me...
He talks with me...
Along life’s narrow way.

Anyways, we’re talking about questions today. Like big questions. Not, “What’s the weather?” Questions like, “Who am I? What does it mean to truly live? Why this life?”

There is a dead rabbi, Abraham Heschel, who called these big questions, “ultimate questions.” These are the questions that are at the foundation of humanity. The ones that we really can’t hear unless we are quiet.

Heschel is of the opinion that religion becomes irrelevant and useless unless it understands these ultimate questions and addresses them. The interesting thing is that I tend to become more preoccupied with what the right answers are as opposed to what the right questions are. But if Heschel is right, then maybe it is time to reconnect with the ultimate questions of this life.

Jesus was a man of questions. It is interesting that Jesus often times seems more interested in having people ask deeper questions than he is in giving them quick answers. In scripture, Jesus often answers questions with more questions. Why is this?

I wonder if we can really own ultimate answers if we have never wrestled through ultimate questions. In other words, is it possible to have all the right answers to all the wrong questions?

Maybe it is my fear, that if I don’t have the right answer about faith and God at any given time, I have somehow failed. But maybe I need to reconnect with the questions of this life...more than the answers.

Jason Mitchell is a teaching pastor at LCBC, a community of people whose lives are being changed by Christ. He lives in Manheim, PA with his wife Jenny and daughter Sienna.
© 2005 Jason Mitchell. Used by permission of the author. All rights reserved.


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