Is it Okay to Ask Questions? by Lisa Burkhardt Worley, D.Min.
Call to me and I will answer you, and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. (Jeremiah 33:3)
I am an inquisitive person, and don’t always accept things at face value. So, I ask questions. Sometimes my husband will say, “Too many questions!” However, I know that many of the Bible’s influencers also asked questions, and for the most part, God allowed it.
When the angel Gabriel told Mary she would become pregnant and give birth to a son named Jesus (Yeshua), she asked, “How can this be, since I am not intimate with a man?” (Luke 1:34). Gabriel then explained how this miraculous conception would take place.
The LORD was patient with Mary’s question, as he is with ours.
There are many other examples of biblical leaders questioning God’s messengers. In Judges 6, an angel of the LORD told Gideon to save Israel from the Midianites’ hands. Gideon replied, “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” The LORD told Gideon that He would be with Him and even gave Gideon a sign that He was really speaking to Gideon.
When God called Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery, the insecure Moses asked in Exodus 3:11, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?” Then in Exodus 4:1, he asked, “What if they don’t believe me?” God patiently answered all of Moses’ questions and provided solutions.
The LORD created us to be curious.
Researcher Dr. Jacqueline Gottlieb states that “Curiosity entails a sort of enthusiasm, a willingness to expend energy and investigate your surroundings. And it’s intrinsically motivated, meaning that nobody is paying you to be curious; you are curious merely based on the hope that something good will come when you learn.”[1]
So curiosity is a gift from God and part of our DNA. He wants us to ask questions when something does not make sense and when we receive a prophetic word about our future that is overwhelming. He provides an explanation when we ask for direction. The good news is that He has the answers when no one else does.
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[1] https://zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/brain-imaging-study-reveals-curiosity-it-emerges
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