by Karla Perry

Created on: March 11, 2011

We often think in terms of man relating to God rather than God to man.  We presume to be the questioner when we appropriate Him as the Answer. While true that He is the Answer, it is truer that we are the question to His Answer rather than Him being the Answer to our question. It seems a matter of word play, but it is really a matter of perspective.

It may sound simple, but the reality that we love because He first loved us is a deep truth.  Our love is not our own, it is His love given back to Him and poured out for others.  He is always depicted as a male, because He is always the initiator and impregnator. Remember, man was created in the image of God, not God in the image of man. These male attributes were not attributes of man we apportion to God, but attributes of God He apportioned to men. We are the responders to His initiation.  This is why in the marriage of the Lamb, we are the Bride and He is the Groom.  

Thus, it is true that Jesus is the Answer, but not because of our questions. We see throughout His three year ministry that He was the one asking the questions.  When questions were asked of Jesus, He adeptly turned the tables and the questioners were put in a place of searching themselves to see if they lined up with Him.  They came to Jesus with questions to show Him to be an impostor, and His retort showed them to be the impostors for the truth was not in them. 

The Pharisees and Sadducees were attempting to demonstrate their spiritual intellect, whereas Jesus was demonstrating to them the bankruptcy of their hearts.  Jesus was never responding to them for even their questions were a response to Him.  We cannot confuse His dialog as Him being interrogated, for every question asked was really a reaction to His presence affecting their world. 

The disciples asked Him to tell them who He is because many were claiming different things about Him. True to form, He asked them “who do you say that I am?”  The claims of others about Him mattered not for we cannot ride on another’s belief, but only on Him.  If we are poised towards Him, our questions draw us closer for they are responses to His Answer drawing us into Him.   If our questions are a reaction against Him they reverberate back to expose our hearts to our need for Him.  If Jesus is not the Answer, there would be no questions to ask for His Being always precedes our knowing. Thus, we ask because He first is the Answer. 

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