Be prepared to ask all kinds of questions, but be open and willing to receive and accept the answers.

There are some questions that need answers because they are serious and they bother us and can bring us down if we don’t receive and respond and if the answer is positive, that very answer can inspire and motivate.

When Almighty God was in the process of calling Moses, many very real questions arose, and no one would be surprised at that!

He was being sent to speak to his own people and to lead his own people and he wondered if the people would listen to him and pay attention to what he had to say and remember that this flowed from the very throne of God.

‘What if’ is a technique we tend to use and can be a common response. What if no one listens to what I have to say?

What will I do if I pray and do not receive an answer and reply?

Always remember that an answer and an answer are two very different and distinctive categories!

These “what if” questions can paralyze us from doing what we need to do and prevent us from doing what the risen and living Lord Jesus Christ might be calling us to do.

God gave Moses signs, but that doesn’t happen every time. Sometimes God provides people who can advise us and confirm what our thinking might be or warn us against making that decision and moving in that direction. The latter is not always very popular!

We can generate all kinds of defenses and turn them into questions that may be nothing more than cowardice and flight from reality.

Streams of excuses may flow from our hearts and mouths as to why our comfort should not be interrupted or disturbed. Think of the great men in the Bible who poured out one excuse after another.

Chapters 3 and 4 of Exodus deal with the objection that Moses initially had, but there was a very different situation with Queen Esther in the Old Testament book that bears her name.

There was a crisis and Esther realized that even though she was queen, if she entered the throne room uninvited, she could lose her life. If she approached the king at the wrong time, there was a chance that she would be killed.

She called people to pray and pray for her because the matter was so serious this time that she was going to enter and her words were: “If I perish, I perish.”

How would you like that answer to prayer? How would you like your question to be answered in this seemingly dangerous way? Read the exciting account surrounding the diverse circumstances in modern day Iraq, because that is where Esther and her people were.

Esther was not the kind of person who would easily hide behind a series of excuses.

Often our questions may be nothing more than excuses for not doing something Almighty God wants us to do. Would it be true to say that this is nothing more than pure sin that we try to disguise in some subtle way but that never convinces or persuades Jesus Christ? Jesus always did what God the Father wanted him to do.

However, never let that stop you from asking questions, but be ready for the answers, especially when they are challenging!