Questions Melting Into Praise and Worship

                People frequently say, “When I get to heaven I’ve got some questions I want God to answer.”  Often the questions have to do with the unfairness of the suffering of the young or some good person.  We want someone to answer to our satisfaction why something happened or failed to happen.  We are often stunned by the way life can knock someone down or take the life of a young child.

As I prepared to write this piece the 10 p.m. newscast was playing the story of a young firefighter who lost his life as he fell over a rail catching a baseball that a star player wanted him to give his son.  The father caught the ball but fell twenty feet to the concrete below.  A second story told of a Snyder, Texas police officer who answered a domestic dispute call and, before he could help, a man drew his pistol and shot him in the head point blank.  He now holds to life by a thread in a Lubbock hospital.

Story after story screams “UNFAIR” because the helper gets killed.  Our world is crazy and cruel.  Random acts of violence characterize our neighborhoods that we desperately want to be safe.  So the questions for God add up.  And some preachers feed the notion: “There is a reason for everything that happens and one day we will know all about it.”  We sing that we will understand it better by and by.

Well, I don’t want to damage anyone’s faith but it is entirely possible that we may never understand random acts of evil done in this world any better later than we do right now.  Why?  Because all that happens doesn’t always have a clear, understandable answer.

Maybe something else is going occur when we enter the eternal world that will displace our questions.  What might that be?  The wonderful, eternal beauty of Jesus Christ – the only King above all Kings and Lord above all Lords.  His throne and our overwhelming desire to give Him glory and honor may easily block out all those nagging questions our earthly sense of justice seems to press for answers.

My dear reader I want you to know that you will be gasping for breath (so to speak) as you look upon His glory!  We are much more likely to have forgotten all earthly questions after we’ve seen Him as He really is.  When we arrive we won’t remember the suffering of a child of God, perhaps, nearly so much as the fact they have entered into the rest of their dear Lord.  There’ll be no more questions then – only worship of the glorified Lord Jesus who gave it all for you and me.  Could this be the true response of our hearts upon arriving in the heavenly realm?  Remember, “We shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.”

Hallelujah, Thine the glory,

Hallelujah, amen.