August 6th, 2011
Questions…
Questions; ever had the experience of a kid you don’t know ask a barrage of personally intrusive questions without ever stopping? You look at the oblivious parents with a pleading look for help, and it goes right over their head. The only thing possibly more annoying than the kid is when an adult, that has no sense of personal boundaries, does exactly the same thing as the annoying kid! We all face a multitude of questions every single day. From what we wear to what we do for the rest of our lives; is all the result of questions that we have asked ourselves.
There are a lot of questions that many of us desperately try to avoid; questions of character, belief, and deeper ones about the kind and type of life that we want versus the life we actually have. These are defining questions. Which pair of shoes I wear is rarely a “defining moment”, whereas my actions (or lack thereof) in accordance with what I say I believe, is a defining moment. But this isn’t about what you do or do not do, it’s about the questions.
The kind and type of questions we are willing to ask ourselves is the single greatest determining factor in the quality of our lives. Superficial questions = superficial life with no real meaning. So, what are the meaningful questions that lead us to a deeper, meaningful life? The current series Five Questions That Will Determine Your Destiny looks at the main characters in the process of Jesus’ birth and the questions they had to face; they are the same questions that face us today.
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