Pondering Questions God Asks in The Bible?


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Who told you that you were naked?

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Genesis 3:11 The context
: Feeling guilty about disobeying God, Adam and Eve tried to hide themselves by covering their skin with big leaves. God saw the leaves and asked them why they needed to be covered. Something had changed that made them feel like they needed to be clothed.

God Asks Us: “Who told you that you were naked?

JNE: The nakedness of Adam and Eve was not simply the absence of clothes, it was an innocence, a freedom, an unembarrassed, guiltless life before God and each other. When they disobeyed God by eating the fruit something in their relationship with God and with each other changed. They felt a need to cover up, to hide. They felt a new embarrassment, fear and guilt. No one needed to tell them they were naked, their own shame spoke it clearly.

Today we may call it a guilty conscience. Most everyone knows and acknowledges the guilt of sin we all share before God. But in our present culture that likes to deny any accountability to God, the question God might ask is: “Who told you that you are not naked?” Who told you that you are not guilty before God? What blind arrogance leads us to deny our guilt and refuse to admit our many attempts to cover ourselves so that God and others cannot see the real self that shamefully hides beneath the self-made coverings we wear. Our honest conscience tells us that yes, we are guilty before a perfect God. So, God Asks Us: Do you know you are you guilty before God?

WHY GOD ASKS QUESTIONS?

It is easy to read the Bible and see only stories and rules. Even if a person can see the Bible as a revelation of Who God is and what He is like it can be difficult to fully realize that in the Bible God invites us to the amazing adventure of an eternal and perfect relationship with Him.

How often do we wish we could ask God questions and have Him give us a plain answer? God, why did You let my father die? God, why am I not getting well? God, why aren’t my plans working? And the questions go on and on and on. The questions aren’t always doubting or complaining, but sometimes simply curiosity. I assume that it is a surprise to most of us that in the Bible God asks us more than 500 questions.

Why does God ask us questions? Surely if God is GOD He knows the answer to all His questions. God does not need us to inform Him of our circumstances, thoughts or motives. God’s questions are always in a context and the reason for them is to prompt us to think more seriously about our lives. So really, the reason God asks us questions is because He cares so much about us.

More than just seeking to probe what we know or think, God's questions can:
>> motivate our curiosity.
>> prompt us to reevaluate the way we think and behave.
>> help us see things from a different perspective.
>> help us dig deeper into really important issues.
>> help us discover what we truly believe.
>> demonstrate that God is dynamically interested in us.
God asks us questions because He wants us to grow.
How important are God’s questions to you?

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