God of All that is Unsolved in Your Heart

Let’s take another approach, mulling over Moses’s strange, wonderful encounter with God in Exodus 3:

2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

How would you describe Moses’ frame of mind in verse 3? Perhaps curious, intrigued… certainly motivated. Something unusual was happening, and Moses decided to stop and investigate. He didn’t shy away from his questions, but let them lead him forward. And that one decision led to a profound turning point in his life.

Is there someplace God is inviting you to let the questions lead you forward? It takes courage to surface them, to admit that we do not have it all figured, to risk the possibility of being changed. Maybe it’s worth it.

Ponder the following quote and, if you’re ready, invite Jesus to surface any questions that would be good for you to hold right now. Perhaps even write them down, as a sign that they matter and you have stopped to honor them.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” - Rainer Maria Rilke