Questions, questions, questions

Isaiah 45:9-11

"Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, 

a pot among earthen pots! 

  Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ 

or ‘Your work has no handles’? 

 10  Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ 

or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’ ” 

 11  Thus says the Lord, 

the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: 

  “Ask me of things to come; 

will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands? "

We all have questions. Sometimes lots of them.

This passage doesn't say we shouldn't ask, in fact it encourages us to. 

This section prompts us to what kind of questions we are asking. Even as children, we often ask the 'why' questions. We seek knowledge, we seek to understand.

Many people ask, "if there is a god then why....?"  But if these questions were truly answered would we be able to handle the magnitude of the answers? We are the ones that have been created, we are not the inventor, the one who put all things together. Maybe our brains couldn't handle the answers to the 'whys'. It's often a bigger picture than we realise.

This section encourages us not to ask those kind of questions, but a different one. 

Instead, we are encouraged to, 'ask me of things to come'. We are to look to the future, not the present or the past. To consider what will be rather than focus on what is or what was. 

If we try to make sense of the present past we don't get very far as there is a whole future mapped out ahead of us and we should be looking where we are going.