What question would you ask God if given the chance?
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple"
This was a question for a challenge on Hive which I opted in for yesterday, and it would be good if I make a post about it here too. If you could ask God one thing and expect an answer from Him immediately, what do you think the question might be, seeing how the world is full of mess and many times, you are always worried and confused why things are happening that way and you really wanted an answer for your question to understand why it is happening that way.
There were different questions from people and lovely replies they assumed God would give them. A user even asked God why He allowed evil in the world and her assumed answer was that God allowed it to test people's faith to see if they would be tempted to do evil or be on the right path with Him.
I commented and added my own view to the question. Do you think God didn´t know about the forbidden fruit He told Adam and Eve not to eat? Yes, He does.
Right from time God had placed both in the garden of Eden, He has given man the choice to do whatever they want. He gave them free will over everything and He was trying to test their patience and obedience to see if they would still choose the right thing, but as we all know, man was curious and needed to see for himself how things would be, which the serpent came to deceive them and they fell. They disobeyed God.
God allowed evil so that He can know those who are truly for Him, to know those who would actually choose to do good rather than evil.
Now, back to my own question. After thinking of the right question to ask because looking at everything in the world, good people are dying so quickly, leaving behind the wicked ones. Even while we kept praying for our loved ones on the sick bed, they eventually gave up the ghost. The question in everyone's mind would be “but we prayed?”
I told a real story of a 600 level student of the University of Benin who eventually died some days ago, perhaps @Kushyzee would know about it since he is also in the school. When my sister uploaded her picture on WhatsApp that she needs a donation while on a live support after being shot in school. I felt what I have never felt before, my mind just stood up and prayed for her because I was moved.
I just don't know why it was so but I did pray on her behalf. Seriously, this is what we call "interceding for someone you don't know". At least we are the same in God's hand. When I heard she was dead, In my mind was “We prayed”
Does that mean we didn´t know how to pray or we just didn't meet the prerequisites to get answers from God.
This was how my question goes;
God, why are the innocents, righteous, good in heart, caring, philanthropists dying at a young age and quickly, leaving behind the wicked ones? Shouldn't it be that the wicked should go before the good ones? Why do we pray for those we love and at the end, it seems we aren't prayerful? Why God?
This was how I presume my answer from God to be;
Going into the book of Isaiah 57 vs 1, we were made to know that God takes the righteous away from evil to come or from seeing calamities ahead.
One thing about God is that He is all-knowing, a God who foresees the future we cannot see, a God who knows the beginning from the end, and the end from the beginning. He was trying to save such an individual from the evils to come which we can never see because He didn't give us such power. If He were to give us such power to see the future, we may misuse it and He was being careful to entrust that to man since He knows His creation He created.
He didn't want the righteous who were taken away so soon to fall out from His grace. He didn't want them to renounce their faith in God, if ever they are left in this world to face such evil He has predicted.
You know there are some things man would experience and at the end would conclude there is no God? He never wants this to happen and never would. He didn't want to leave them under the device of the wicked ones because He knows those He created.
Why then leave the wicked alone? Someone said it is because He is a God of mercy who doesn't want His children to perish, but to give another chance to repent, and if they do not change from being wicked, then the gate of grace would be shut. God doesn't want the sinner to perish but to have everlasting life.
I hope you now get the whole thing here as I do not want to go deeper into this topic, as it is what is in my mind all day, leaving behind an unanswered question but an answer I presumed, if at all God would give me such reply.
Thanks for reading.
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[March 08, 2022] (No 67 article for the year)
I will ask God why He has allowed wickedness to take over the world because I know that He has the power to make the world a better place.