Questions

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. —Isaiah 55:8-9 (Amplified Bible)

As I move in my faith walk with God, I have stumbled often. I believe a lot of my stumbling has come from wrong thoughts and ideas about God, how God sees me, and what God wants for me. My eyes were opened to a new way of thinking about my circumstances as I read a daily devotion from Ransomed Heart Ministries. The devotion read:

Most of us have been misinterpreting life and what God is doing for a long time. "I think I’m just trying to get God to make my life work easier," a client of mine confessed, but he could have been speaking for most of us. We’re asking the wrong questions. Most of us are asking, "God, why did you let this happen to me?" Or, "God, why won’t you just ________" (fill in the blank—help me succeed, get my kids to straighten out, fix my marriage—you know what you’ve been whining about). But to enter into a journey of initiation with God requires a new set of questions: What are you trying to teach me here? What issues in my heart are you trying to raise through this? What is it you want me to see? What are you asking me to let go of?¹

While I cannot say that I am looking forward to trials and circumstances that are going to arise in my life, I am looking forward to putting these questions to use so I go deeper in my journey with the Lord. I am interested in fulfilling my destiny and being all that God created me to be. I believe that these questions will help me to develop a deeper relationship with the Lord and discover where God wants me to go. The way I view situations will change because of these questions, so I can begin looking at things through God’s perspective.

I challenge you to ask yourself these questions and allow the Holy Spirit to minister the answers to you. Journal the answers, search Scripture for the truth, and share your heart with a close Christian friend.