I wonder how many questions I have been asked and will be asked over my lifetime. Questions about God. Life. Fears. Boyzzz. Dreams/Nightmares. Expectations. Faith. School. Baby carrots. Heaven/Hell. Interests. Family. Gossip. Failures. Black holes/Quasars. You know. The usual good question topics. Here's the thing, though. Some questions are obviously less involved. The basic, non-investigative questions that can be answered with a simple 'yes' or 'no' seem to be pretty popular with people these days [I'm holding myself back on this today - lucky you]. But there are some questions that can be discussed for quite a length of time, and will be discussed more than once, even. It's no mystery that there are questions that don't technically have an answer. We can try as hard as we want to answer the questions that we think should have an absolute answer. But whether we like it or not, sometimes they are simply not going to be answered… the subject matter may actually be quite inexplicable.
These questions I speak of are not like math problems. You can’t start at step one with a formula or an equation and solve it step-by-step. You’re not going to find answers in any proofs, no matter how many times you try and work it out - even backwards. No, these questions are more like art. You start out with a basic idea of where you want to go or where you think things should go. As time passes, you add a little something here – a bit of extra there – you go back and paint over something you don’t like anymore. And then, perhaps even before you expect it, you’re done. You set it out on display and people come to view it. You discuss it and explain it to the viewers, but even so, sometimes they just don’t get it… even if they think they see the [whole] picture. They then become so set on what they "see" that they fail to open their minds and comprehend the meaning of the painting.
I think people get so hung up on questions and answers. There is so much more to life than arguing about certain things - especially about topic matter that we will technically never fully understand. I am completely for searching out truths and for bringing up things we as finite people are curious about. But when it gets to the point where people become obsessed, defensive, and bitter... well, naturally, it then becomes a problem. Questions that make you think and challenge you - especially in areas such as your faith - are wonderful. We just shouldn't get so hung up on the unknown and thinking that we need to know everything. Knowledge may be power, but it's not the most important thing in the world. I wonder how many men have wasted away their lives searching for answers to meaningless questions.
'For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Discretion will protect you,
and understanding will guard you.'
[Proverbs 2:10-11]
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