Questions: 3 More Quotes from Fischer
From True Believers Don't Ask Why by John Fischer pg. 14
Too many answers, too many connoisseurs.
Too many cancers and too many cures.
Questions leave us vulnerable, weak, needy. They open up gaping holes in our personality, our theology, or our lifestyle.
This morning I counted 288 question marks in the book of Job. Many were from the mouth of Job; others were spoken by his counselors who turned out to be much like the side-show con artists of today. "Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?" God said of them. But surprisingly, when God finally speaks in the closing chapters, His answer to Job comes in the form of more questions -- 78 of them, to be exact. Of the 288 question marks in the book of Job, 78 of them belong to God; they are His answers to Job.
Sometimes God answers us with questions -- questions that leave us humbled, awed, speechless, weak, and believing -- believing not because we've found the answer, but because we've seen God. It doesn't matter that we have more questions now than when we started. It matters that we see God, for in the seeing, we discover that the truest answer to all questions is to worship Him.
Too many answers, too many connoisseurs.
Too many cancers and too many cures.
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Questions leave us vulnerable, weak, needy. They open up gaping holes in our personality, our theology, or our lifestyle.
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This morning I counted 288 question marks in the book of Job. Many were from the mouth of Job; others were spoken by his counselors who turned out to be much like the side-show con artists of today. "Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?" God said of them. But surprisingly, when God finally speaks in the closing chapters, His answer to Job comes in the form of more questions -- 78 of them, to be exact. Of the 288 question marks in the book of Job, 78 of them belong to God; they are His answers to Job.
Sometimes God answers us with questions -- questions that leave us humbled, awed, speechless, weak, and believing -- believing not because we've found the answer, but because we've seen God. It doesn't matter that we have more questions now than when we started. It matters that we see God, for in the seeing, we discover that the truest answer to all questions is to worship Him.
posted by GBT at
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
