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Is there a God?
Where did we come from?
Does that God reveal Himself to man?
Does He have a purpose for me?
You know, these and a million more—the big questions.
In a society that is permeated with trivialities, we tend to believe that the big questions don’t really matter any more. Moral relativism and spiritual disinterest has caused many to believe that what you think is as good as the truth. Conflating personal values and absolute truth is the trademark of our day. We’re even afraid to posit the big questions because we dare not infringe on the right of another’s opinion, regardless of how absurd or inane.
Many would have us believe that the big questions don’t even matter any more as we’ve surpassed the superstitions and fantasies of a book antiquated through technology, science, and education. And yet, for all its ability to enlighten our understanding of the world around us and even ourselves, the sciences have not been able to adequately postulate the inherited desires that we have; rather, they’ve been relegated to Darwinian theories that they can neither prove nor fully rationalize. Our need to be loved has been termed an evolutionary development. Our strong desire for stories that transcend humanity and speak to a higher power is dismissed as Dark Age predispositions.
When we shy away from the big questions we unable to satisfactorily answer our own worst fears. When we shrink from the awesome thoughts that have pestered humanity’s greatest thinkers we turn to our own ability to resolve our problems. We bypass the great wisdom and eternal truths of God’s Word to establish our own parameters of goodness, morality, and justice.
The big questions keep us grounded in a humble understanding that we really don’t have all the answers. There certainly is more to life than eat, drink, and be merry. They help us to see our true condition as it is—sinners, finite, and woefully incapable.
Yes, humanity can now land rockets back on Earth. Yes, we have computers that can make calculations literally billions of times faster and exponentially smaller than ever imaginable. Wealth and prosperity, generally speaking, have never been more enjoyed by so many.
Even still, the big questions remain.
And so they ever will.
We are created by an infinitely wise, loving, and holy God. We are here for His honor and glory. We are created to know Him and apart from Him, there can be no satisfaction. He makes Himself known through His Son Jesus Christ who came, lived, died, and rose again to be our substitute for the awful penalty of sin that we all deserve as sinners. The simple repentance of our condition and faith that He can and does save is sufficient to begin to answer all of our deepest questions.
Don’t be afraid to ask the big questions. The bigger the question the greater the need to answer it. It’s only in the honest pursuit of truth that we can learn the answer or anything approximating to understanding the truth. Regardless of what our psychologists, scientists, or academics may tell us, we’ll never fully understand. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t ask. More than ever we need the big questions to be asked and God’s people ready and willing to point the enquiring heart to the greatest answer to the biggest questions: Jesus Christ.