"...consider the most common things, questions, doubts, apples, ..."

Consider the most common things, questions, doubts, apples, ...

Triggers of doubt, intellectual, emotional, trauma, temptation triggers 

you won’t stay there
doubt to faith or to unbelief

It’s good to question, not a lack of faith, often strengthens your beliefs.

No guilt when we have questions, question pastoral teachings, or doctrine 

- our view may change.

Teachable, can mean a small box, where any question is out of that very small box.

Live with unanswered questions. Enjoy learning.

We may not have answers to all questions.

Others we live with need to know it is ok to question.

We have to have the faith of a child.

“Let the little children come to Me; do not get in their way.

 For the kingdom of heaven belongs to children like these.” 

Matt 19:14 VOICE

“Let the little children come to Me. Never hinder them!

 Don’t you realize—the kingdom of God belongs to those who are like children? 

You can depend on this: if you don’t receive the Kingdom as a child would,

 you won’t enter it at all.”

 Luke18:17 VOICE

What were the little children asking Jesus when he said,

 "Let them come to me"

Multitudes of questions surely!

Perhaps, why is the sky blue?

Did you always obey your mom? 

Why were some parents healed?

Did you go to school?

Why are you so kind to everyone that is shunned by our town-like the tax collector, the prostitute or the foreigner?

“And as You knelt in the garden was I on Your mind?
 

What was the joy set before You? Was my heart Your prize?” *


Even when we consider the most common things,

we could have endless observations or questions so much more will we have questions of God and the ways of God. **

"Doubt is not a Christian problem, it is a human problem.

I can't even understand the "depths of the apple trees and apple varieties,

and am "I overwhelmed that I can't come to all conclusions that I want concerning God." If i would walk away from Christianity, I would just have another set of questions that would become doubts.

The struggle is with our "finitude, mortality limitations and weaknesses. No worldview is going to give me certainty or knowledge of everything"

"What do we do with our doubt and what is the purpose of my life?"

"Your thoughts and plans are treasures to me, O God! 

I cherish each and every one of them!

How grand in scope! How many in number!

If I could count each one of them,

 they would be more than all the grains of sand on earth.

Their number is inconceivable!

  Even when I wake up, I am still near to You.

 Psalm 139:17-18 VOICE

Consider apple trees, for instance, in your yard or apples varieties at the market!

Smell the difference among.

How many varieties are possible?

How long does it take a tree to mature?

Are all the seeds the same?

How much water does it take to grow a tree?

And do a variety of trees have different color leaves?

How does an apple become sweet, tart, good for baking, good for eating?

Can the apple be used for apple sauce, pie, juice, butter?

What months do they ripen? Do they need refrigerated?

Which ones get brown when sliced? ***

                             

 

 

   *Lamb elevation worship


** Faith like a child - Church Hurt, Doubt and Addiction with Bobby    Conway 

-Thoughts and some quotes from this conversation

***Apple Varieties