Is It OK to Ask God Questions?: a Devotional
Regardless of how you’ve dealt with Jesus before, a cancer diagnosis always impacts faith.
Your reaction to your diagnosis might be to:
-throw yourself into Jesus’ loving arms and soak up His comfort.
-lean upon your salvation, knowing Christ has prepared a place for you in heaven.
-look at your cancer and question what God is doing in your life.
If you are like most Christians, you have done all three.
A cancer diagnosis does not cause most Christians coping with cancer to doubt God’s existence or to question their salvation. Most feel safe and secure in the foundation of their faith, but some want to make sense out of a suffering that makes no sense to them. They grasp for an understanding of what their future holds, or they look back at their life for something that might have changed their diagnosis. At times, God’s peace and comfort seems beyond their reach. Cancer is confusing and can stir up questions for God.
• Is it OK to question God? Why or why not?
Read the verses below:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “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
• Write these verses using your own words.
God knows everything. We are not supposed to know everything, and yet we have questions. Is it OK to ask God questions? Let’s look at another verse:
“For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.” 1 Corinthians 2:11-12
• Who knows the thoughts of God?
• Why have we been given the Spirit who is from God?
Everyone who believes in Christ has received the Holy Spirit. That’s right, every believer. Through the Spirit of God, believers can come to understand some of the things of God, not everything, not even most things, but definitely some things.
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29