Oct 6th, 2020: Questions God Asks Us

 Where Are You? Rev. Abi Foerster Genesis 2:1 – 3:15 March 10, 2019 1. Why does ______ want to ask us questions? During

What questions do you think that God has been asking you lately? Sometimes we approach our time with God as if it is a monologue. God does ask questions when we spend time with Him. As I think over my moments with God during the last six months due to Covid-19, I realize that these are the questions He has been presenting to me:

A) How are you managing? Are you afraid? He wants to know whether we have been dealing with our stress level and whether we know that He is with us. He wants to be sure that we have the right to access Him anytime we need Him. He wants to know our fears because these are the gateways for the evil manipulation.

B) How are you feeling? Now He wants to address our relationships with other people in our life. We cannot have our relationship right with Him when we struggle in our relationship with one another. Covid-19 has uncovered many brokenness in marriages, family relationships, workplace relationships, and relationships in our faith community. God wants to know how we would like to address these struggles by asking us about our feelings.

C) How are you keeping yourself healthy? People started stocking up last week our of fear of the second wave of the pandemic. What needs to happen to keep us spiritually well? For some, it is the commitment to meditate and to look beyond the obvious in trying to discern God's interaction with us. For others, it might be the commitment to rest and to allow ourselves some time to overcome our physical and emotional fatigue. 


Please feel free to let me know what other questions that God has been asking you. I would love to hear about them. One more thing, the first question God ever asked: "Where are you?"

Genesis 3: 8-9
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

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