The Answer to Life's Questions

As we go through life we can have many questions unanswered, but all these unknowns can be overcome by faith in Jesus Christ, by trusting in Who we do know.  Many times there is no satisfaction gained by receiving an answer:  we hoped for yes, yet the answer was no.  An honest and biblically accurate answer still might make no sense to us.  Also, it is possible for one question we ask to have many correct answers, depending on the context and perspective.  Praise the LORD He is the answer for all of our uncertainties and mental and physical insufficiency, for God is able to save to the uttermost all who come to Him in faith.

Some excellent questions are asked by genuine seekers who do not hail from Christian backgrounds because they look curiously upon what we can take for granted.  I was asked a thought-provoking question recently I had never considered myself:  if God planned to send Jesus as Saviour of the world, why didn't He send Him instead of Moses?  Great caution must be taken in answering a question like this, for God's wisdom is higher than ours and His ways past finding out.  Though our understanding is limited, through the Bible God has revealed Himself to us and thus intellectually satisfying answers can be provided received by faith.  The revelation of scripture enables us to find firm ground beyond the subjectivity of self with clouded motivations.

One answer to this question lies in the fact that without clearly defined sin there was no understanding of need for a Saviour.  Moses justified the killing of the Egyptian who was beating the Hebrew slave to show he believed God had called him to deliver God's people from slavery.  Acts 7:23-25 reads, "Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian. ²⁵ For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand."  It was through Moses God gave the 8th commandment:  "Thou shalt not murder."  Without the Law and Prophets God's people would have not realised their sinfulness and need for atonement only Jesus could once for all provide.

It is ironic Jews who had been given the Law would cling to Moses and reject Jesus, and by God's wisdom this provided an opportunity of salvation to Gentiles who were aliens from the first covenant and commonwealth of Israel.  Are not the ways of God past finding out?  The grace of God revealed by the Gospel is the sort of thing that intrigues men and angels, for it is written in 1 Peter 1:10-12:  "Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, ¹¹ searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. ¹² To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven--things which angels desire to look into."  Supernatural beings were incapable of discovering what God graciously has revealed to sinners by grace.  What a treasure we have in the Bible and the Holy Spirit who helps us comprehend what God has said!

There is much we don't understand, but God has all in hand.  In the trillion microscopic cells of the human body unseen by the naked eye there is a command centre, vast assembly lines, means of transportation and waste plants--all operating without our knowledge to promote the health of the body.  We can only begin to explain what is happening by making comparisons to what we see, and God made it to work silently and seamlessly.  Is there anything too hard for God?  If other human beings can "talk over our heads" in their field of expertise, wouldn't God even more so when it comes to life and eternity?  Praise the LORD He has the answers and unknowns overcome through faith in Him.  We don't need to know everything because we know and trust the One who does and has revealed Himself to us by grace.