Question! Question!! Question!!! Who will give me an answer?

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There was a time when I was young, like I was in my primary school then, and my mum's friend came to visit her. They both gisted, talked, laughed and ended their talks. After the woman had gone, I was curious to ask this question because then, I didn't understand how they did that (this, I am talking of the 90's era) and this question came out of nowhere and I asked "Mummy, how do you became friends? How did your friendship started?".

She laughed and being a child, she understand that I was still small. Then, she gave me the right answer that made me get the whole saga.

Inasmuch as we seek answers to some questions ruminating in our mind, still we can't get answers to every one of them even though we try all means to reach the root of most of them. Questions like;

• Where was God when he created Heaven and Earth? Where did He get the power from?

• How was He (God) created?

• How do I know the secret of this world?

We all should know these are questions that even if you ask the biggest and wisest man on this earth, he can never be able to give you the answers best suitable for all of them. Yes we all want replies to our confusing questions but it is not possible most times.

Now when we start looking at different people, there are many questions running through our minds like;

• Why is A getting the best thing of life and B is struggling?

• Aren't they both humans?

• Why is this guy or girl short/ tall?

• Why is she blind?

• With all the achievements he had, why has he not become a father yet?

• Why are some people creative and others are not?

• Why is it hard for him to let go?

Even in a relationship where the wife is not happy with the way her husband is putting up some behaviour in the home and she ask questions like;

• Why has he suddenly changed?

• Have I done something to provoke him?

• Have I not been making a good wife to him?

• Are my children irritating him?

• Is he seeing someone else?

And many questions like that and it keeps going on like that in her mind. She then start to try her best to adjust perhaps the husband can change but the issue keeps getting worse. What then is happening?

As a student, you are not performing well in your academics and seeing other people excelling, you'd be like;

• Are these people not human like me?

• What are they doing that I fail to do?

• Is there something wrong with me?

• Are generational curses following me? etc

In every aspect of life, there are questions that need answers to them and we keep asking different people, they start to give their own best answers. Now another question will be, Am I satisfied with these answers or should I look for more?

No matter how good some answers fit most questions, we still go out to find more answers and we humans are never satisfied.

When a poor child sees another rich man's son, he goes ahead with questions like;

• How did I end up with a poor family?

• Shouldn't I be enjoying like him?

• Where were my parents when his parents were making it?

• Will I be poor forever?

The day I lost my mum, I started having different questions that I even had to suspect a particular person that I thought killed her

• Why did you leave so soon?

• God, why have you made me motherless?

• Why didn't you stop whoever that wanted to kill her?

• So I will end up not having a mother?

• Who will stand by me when I graduate, get married and have children?

• Why didn't she wait to enjoy her labor?

But who do I blame? No one! I just had to let go and move on with life and believe that God knows the best.

Let me end with this:

I was having a bible study with a friend who is a Jehovah's witness and when she allowed me read a scripture in Psalms 37 verse 29

"The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it"

As we were studying along, two questions popped into my mind and they were;

• Does this verse means that the righteous who have died will return back to this earth while you and I and those living will not die but live on this earth forever?

• If all of these are God's promises for us, why then is He allowing people, especially the righteous dying instead of the wicked?

We all have different questions and it is very normal so that we can understand what is happening around us. Just as a lecturer who just finished lecturing and he asked "do you have any question?" Different questions will come and the ones he can answer, he will while the ones he cannot answer, he will say "Go and make enquiry on that for the next class, it is your assignment"

Just so you know, we will not have answers to every questions being asked .

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|June 24, 2021|