Finding the Answer
06/05/07 19:34
Here’s a riddle: What is too much for one,
enough for two and nothing at all for
three?
The answer is a secret (except for the one who knows the answer) and it is your job to rack your brain to figure out what it is. Some riddles are very simple and some are so complicated you don’t even spend time trying to figure it out. Robin put a puzzle together a few weeks ago and it gave her fits. It was designed to give her fits; the pieces were so much alike that they could have fit in one or two places. Often times she would have to undo what she did and redo it another way. This puzzle wasn’t for the novice! What was exasperating was when I came and just picked up a piece and stuck it right in! At one time she even turned the puzzle upside down in order to get a different perspective.
Now, if this doesn’t sound a lot like life, I don’t know what does. So many people think of their lives as one big puzzle or riddle. They have a need to know the answer and to figure out how the pieces of their lives fit together. Why did they have to go through this hardship? Why couldn’t they win the big lottery? Why did this one have to die so young? These are just a few of the questions that haunt mankind all over the world and at every age. The bigger questions are more complicated: Where did we come from? What is right and what is wrong? What is my purpose and what is my end? If we get the answers to these five questions, the tens of thousands of other intrusive questions that have plagued us throughout our lives can be “fitted” into the “puzzle” we call life. The answer is a secret to most folks. It is a stumbling block for the Jew and foolishness for the Greek. Oftentimes the Answer is right in front of our face but we fail to see it. Or, better said, “fail to see Him.” It always tickles me when I read the account of Jesus standing before the Roman Procurator, Pontius Pilate. Pilate asks Him, “What is truth?” But as soon as he asks, he walks away. Either he didn’t want to hear the answer or he figured that it was too subjective for any hope of a conclusive reality. But the irony of it was that Truth was staring him in the face. Pilate was speaking directly to Truth. If you can receive this, Christian, it will answer so many of life’s difficulties: Jesus didn’t just speak truth as if to say, truth was something that He knew. No, He is truth and He is all that truth is. He is why man is! He is the purpose of all our lives! He is what is right and everything else, outside of Him, is wrong. And He is the end of all things. So, in other words, when I find something crashing into my life that I do not have the answers to, I can go to Jesus and He will be the answer and ultimately supply the answer for my present dilemma. So, many folks miss the enjoyment of a successful life because they fail to see this Answer that has been right in front of them all along. It’s kind of like the answer to the riddle we began with. Do you know the answer? Why not, I’ve told you the answer twice within these few paragraphs. Have a blessed week!
three?
The answer is a secret (except for the one who knows the answer) and it is your job to rack your brain to figure out what it is. Some riddles are very simple and some are so complicated you don’t even spend time trying to figure it out. Robin put a puzzle together a few weeks ago and it gave her fits. It was designed to give her fits; the pieces were so much alike that they could have fit in one or two places. Often times she would have to undo what she did and redo it another way. This puzzle wasn’t for the novice! What was exasperating was when I came and just picked up a piece and stuck it right in! At one time she even turned the puzzle upside down in order to get a different perspective.
Now, if this doesn’t sound a lot like life, I don’t know what does. So many people think of their lives as one big puzzle or riddle. They have a need to know the answer and to figure out how the pieces of their lives fit together. Why did they have to go through this hardship? Why couldn’t they win the big lottery? Why did this one have to die so young? These are just a few of the questions that haunt mankind all over the world and at every age. The bigger questions are more complicated: Where did we come from? What is right and what is wrong? What is my purpose and what is my end? If we get the answers to these five questions, the tens of thousands of other intrusive questions that have plagued us throughout our lives can be “fitted” into the “puzzle” we call life. The answer is a secret to most folks. It is a stumbling block for the Jew and foolishness for the Greek. Oftentimes the Answer is right in front of our face but we fail to see it. Or, better said, “fail to see Him.” It always tickles me when I read the account of Jesus standing before the Roman Procurator, Pontius Pilate. Pilate asks Him, “What is truth?” But as soon as he asks, he walks away. Either he didn’t want to hear the answer or he figured that it was too subjective for any hope of a conclusive reality. But the irony of it was that Truth was staring him in the face. Pilate was speaking directly to Truth. If you can receive this, Christian, it will answer so many of life’s difficulties: Jesus didn’t just speak truth as if to say, truth was something that He knew. No, He is truth and He is all that truth is. He is why man is! He is the purpose of all our lives! He is what is right and everything else, outside of Him, is wrong. And He is the end of all things. So, in other words, when I find something crashing into my life that I do not have the answers to, I can go to Jesus and He will be the answer and ultimately supply the answer for my present dilemma. So, many folks miss the enjoyment of a successful life because they fail to see this Answer that has been right in front of them all along. It’s kind of like the answer to the riddle we began with. Do you know the answer? Why not, I’ve told you the answer twice within these few paragraphs. Have a blessed week!
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