Beyond BeliefSample

Little kids love asking questions. If you have little siblings or have ever babysat a kid, you know all about this. They want to know where the sun goes at night, why ice cubes are cold, what makes planes fly, and why people shake hands. Sometimes, these questions are pretty easy to answer. But sometimes, kids come up with some pretty hard questions. How many stars are there? What does God look like? How many emotions do animals have? These are questions kids ask that even adults have a hard time answering.

As we get older, we get answers to some of those questions, but we also find new, tougher questions. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why won't God just fix everything wrong with the world? What is heaven actually like? These are important questions that just don't have easy answers. It would be nice if God would come down here and give us some answers.

Why won't God just make things easy? Why won't he answer our questions, give us a sign, or take away our doubts? Well, that's the thing . . . the Bible says that God is going to do just that, someday. It just hasn't happened yet.

In 1 Corinthians 13:12, Paul writes that we're basically looking at God in a smudgy old mirror now. The reflection just isn't very clear. But the day is coming when we won't have to look in a mirror at all. We'll actually look God in the face, and get all our questions answered.