Enquiring Minds Want to Know

“After three days they found him in the temple courts,

sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.”

Luke 2:46

 

 

Do you want to know?

Are you inquisitive in the things of God?

Are you eager to find answers or do you just settle for the answer:

“Because, that’s the way it is!”

Some people are resigned to thinking that because God is all-knowing and we are not we shouldn’t seek to understand His ways.

Read this verse with me –

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

    neither are your ways my ways,”

declares the Lord.”

Isaiah 55:8

Now some people read that verse and consider it somehow to be a prohibition of knowing and seeking God’s ways and His thoughts.

But take a moment and read it in context and you find it means the opposite.

God delights when we seek to know Him and understand Him.

As I read today’s verse I find that Jesus, even in his youth, had a hunger to know His Father.

But it was not an ‘unanswered hunger’.

We are told that his hunger took action.

He was sitting among the teachers listening and asking questions.

We are to be imitators of Christ.

When was the last time you sat quietly with the Holy Spirit and the Word of God listening and asking questions?

Enquiring minds want to know…