Why questions in the bible

Hebrews So, what are we so afraid of? I want my answer to be Forgive me, Lord, for fearing that anything is stronger than You or outside of Your control. If Jesus can walk on the water, turn water into wine, and give you living water, surely He can keep you from the waters that threaten to rock your boat.

Jesus likely asked this question in Mark out of frustration. Jesus had just fed four thousand people with seven loaves of bread and a few fish. Prior to that, he had fed another 5, with just five loaves of bread and two fish, healed a deaf and mute man, cast a demon out of a young girl just by saying the words, and walked on water in front of them while they watched from a storm-tossed boat!

What more did they need to see to understand that He was the Son of God? What have you seen Jesus do? How many coincidences do you have to experience to know His hand is working in your life and circumstances?

How many times does He have to come through for you financially to make you trust His provision? May our answer to His question be: Open my eyes to see You for who You really are and to never again doubt Your presence, Your power, or Your provision.

Jesus said some things that were pretty hard for people of His day to swallow. His words seemed intolerant, his ideas radical, His statements, at times, seemed judgmental.

Are you also going to leave? You have the words that give eternal life. Scripture tells us in Luke that an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus and asked Him what he must do to inherit eternal life. How do you read it? Scripture is our sole authority today.

Jesus was well aware of the woman who had been hemorrhaging for 12 long years and had spent every last cent she owned trying to get well, but only got worse. He knew she was desperate to be healed. He knew what she risked by going out in public and touching a Rabbi, which would, under Jewish law, make Him ceremoniously unclean.

Jesus asked the question because He wanted her to speak up. He wanted her story to be told. Has He forgiven you and given you a new lease on life? Then tell your story so God will be glorified. Jesus asked this of Peter, not once, but three times, after his disciple—who claimed to be the most loyal of the bunch—had three times publicly denied knowing Jesus on the night of his arrest and crucifixion.

Jesus asked this question three times as a gift to Peter. He giving him the chance to three times reaffirm his love for his Lord, after having blown it a few days earlier.

John Have you blown it with Christ, too? Him or our money? Has he dealt righteously with me? In his heart of hearts, Job began to slowly doubt this as the story unfolds. That is the context of this quote. God has been quiet through the whole discussion but finally He speaks.

Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? The next couple of chapters bring forth dozens of questions from God to Job. And Job can answer none of them.

And that is the point of the questions. God was acting in power and knowledge of all things before Job or us even existed! We also, like Job, can doubt the goodness or justice of God in times of prolonged difficulty. Does He care? Does He know what I'm going through? Why has He allowed this? In times like this we need to remember this question of God to Job because it shows us again the wisdom and power of our God.

He knows all things. He controls all things. He allows that which comes into the lives of His people. And He cares. He cared for Job and He cares for us. But He cares too much to not allow things that will come into our lives that would force us to press into Him and learn more of who He is. Isaiah In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? Send me! Isaiah was given a tremendous vision of the Lord is His Heavenly realm. And when the word of the Lord came it was an interesting question: 'Whom shall I send? In other words, though God can do anything He wants, He still chooses to use weak vessels to do His bidding. That included Isaiah in his day but could also include you and me.

God hasn't changed and is still using people like you and me to carry out His will. This is both a privilege and a responsibility. How would you respond if you heard God say 'who will go for us? Where is it that I'm meant to go? Whether I speak up or not kind of relies on what the task is! Having seen God and His glory, he was quick to answer 'here I am. Question 9. Do you have reason to be angry? Jonah But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry. That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish.

I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. In Jonah chapter 4, Jonah is pretty slacked off. He wanted God to severely judge the Assyrians in Nineveh, but alas, the Ninevites have gone and done the unthinkable and have repented of their sin!

But Jonah actually wanted these people destroyed for they were a wicked and ruthless nation who acted as a great threat and enemy to the nation of Israel. So Jonah is angry. A boiling hot type of anger And then the question comes from the Lord: 'Have you any right to be angry? It is a similar thought to that which we saw with Job.

The fact is that we only see things on the one level. God sees all things. God's actions are performed taking into account the past, present and future. He takes into account motives of the heart as well as words of the mouth. We do not have a right to be angry with Him unless we put ourselves into a position that says we know more than Him. And I don't think we need to answer that question! Question Son of man, can these bones live? For this question it will be worth your while to read the entire chapter.

But as a summary, the prophet Ezekiel was given an amazing vision of a valley of dry bones and the question came to him asking whether the bones can live. Ezekiel wasn't sure and replied to the Lord that He alone knew. He was then asked to prophesy to the bones and tell them to live! You probably remember the story. The bones started to rattle and came together. Soon there were tendons, flesh and skin Now in context this was giving an illustration of the nation of Israel.

God said that Israel would be scattered amongst the nations but he would bring them out of the graves and back into their own land in the last days. And we have seen, in the last 70 years, a fulfilment of this amazing prophecy! We still await the time when they, as a nation, will have the spirit poured out upon them as indicated also in this chapter.

God asks questions. If God does know everything, why does He ask questions? Asking questions is often a helpful way to find out new information, but did you know that questions serve purposes other than helping you learn something? Questions give people the opportunity to learn, share, think and grow. In reading the Bible, there are many exchanges where the Creator of the universe uses questions to speak into lives of people.

Jesus, being fully God and a master teacher asks questions all through the Gospels. They have seen Him perform miracles and teach amazing truths about living in relationship with God. He draws the disciples in by asking them to share what other people are saying about His identity. What had they learned? What did they believe?