Life isn’t easy and Christian life is no exception. God knows us; He knows we have questions, doubts and fears during hard times. He’s there with us through it all. He’s watching us and waiting for us to realize He can handle our hard questions. He wants us to ask them, to draw us into a closer relationship with Him.

When difficulties come into our lives, we can pull away from God and try to “fix” things on our own or we can stop running around and let God step in. We can seek answers to life’s hard questions by searching Scripture as well as asking God through prayer. The secret is… we have to offer Him the opportunity to answer. Open our hearts, our minds, our eyes, and our ears.

I have a favorite image of God in my head: while we’re running around like crazy trying to solve our problems and going nowhere, God is standing in the doorway watching, waiting for us to sit down and be still so He can do his work. Let’s sit down, be still, ask the hard questions and then let him do His work.

Take your toughest questions to the Lord today. Ask him to reveal his purpose for you through these puzzles and challenges of life so your relationship with Him can grow stronger.

The spiritual man tries all things (he examines, investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all things). – 1 Corinthians 2:15 AMP