Saying YES to God doesn’t mean that you will never have a question. What do you do with your questions? Do you view your questions as a lack of faith? Maybe you stuff them down like that last sweater in a too-full suitcase and then hold them down while you zip them shut. Part of saying YES to God is saying yes to questions. So..what do you do with them?

If we believe that God is all-knowing and all-powerful doesn’t it stand to reason that He already knows Your questions? If God is all-knowing and all-powerful doesn’t it mean that sometimes He will know things that you and I don’t? If God knows my questions and He knows things that I don’t then why don’t I ask Him? 

Here’s the conclusion that I have come to: It takes more faith to ask God my questions than it does to stuff them down and pretend that I don’t have them. As a kid growing up it became my modus operandi to do what was expected of me so that I could stay out of trouble. Not because I loved what was right, but because I didn’t like getting yelled at or corrected. As I began to learn more about what following God looked like, what trust and faith looked like on the outside, I applied the same principle to faith. I would always give the “right” answer, but there was no depth, no real faith involved. I stuffed my questions and confusion and zipped them up with Bible quotes and positive words that weren’t the true confessions of my heart. 

God’s continual work in me is to take what I know to be true and plant it deep into my experience. That happens most effectively when I am in the midst of a time full of questions. In times like that there is really only one thing to do: Ask God my questions and hold to what I know is true based on His unchanging Word. Sometimes, He answers my questions. Sometimes He doesn’t. But I’ve realized that asking my questions of God is often a greater expression of trust. Trust involves unknowing. It involves a hope, an expectation that my concerns, my fragile emotions, my future, will be treated with love and respect. 

When I give God my unknowing, my questions, I have realized that I am giving Him my YES. "YES, Lord, I believe that You really do love me. YES, Lord, I believe that You will do what is best. YES, Lord, I believe that Your timing will be perfect. YES, Lord, You are my God.”

Key Thought: When I give God my questions, I am giving Him my YES.

A Scripture to consider: 

A YES Challenge: Have you been stuffing some questions? Take a step of faith and ask God about them.

Prayer: 

Lord, sometimes life is so confusing and frustrating. There are so many things I can’t control and I don’t understand. Help me to bring my questions to You, knowing that You already have the answers and will reveal them to me at the right time and in the right way. I will choose to trust that You will receive my questions with love. Amen.