Asking Better Questions
One of the things I love most about John 14 is how intimate it feels. Jesus is sitting around a table with his friends, responding to their questions in real time. And in those exchanges, he offers some of the most revealing teaching we find anywhere in the gospels.
What struck me this week is that none of this teaching comes as a lecture. It all comes as a response. Jesus waits for the questions.
That feels important to me, because it suggests that faith isn’t primarily about having the right answers. It’s about learning how to ask the questions that open us up to deeper truth.
Earlier in the conversation, Thomas admits that he doesn’t understand where Jesus is going or how they’re supposed to follow him. That honest confusion leads directly to one of Christianity’s most central claims: “I am the way.” Thomas’ question becomes the doorway to revelation.
Then Philip speaks up: “Just show us the Father, and that will be enough.” And once again, another defining insight emerges—this time about the Spirit, about God’s presence continuing to guide us even when Jesus is no longer physically with them.
In retrospect, these feel like foundational ideas. The kind of thing you might expect Jesus to lead with. But instead, he waits. He lets the questions rise from the table. Almost as if the asking itself is part of the sacred exchange.
That pattern shapes how I understand faith. The Bible doesn’t read like a set of divine dictations. It reads like a long conversation—human curiosity met by divine response. And that tells me something important: discipleship isn’t about repeating what we’ve been told. It’s about learning how to ask better questions of God.
Honestly, that might be one of the best measures of spiritual growth I know. Not that I have fewer questions—but that I’m asking better ones.
Faith, I’m learning, isn’t a quest for certainty. It’s a practice of honest curiosity. It’s holding our answers lightly, staying open, and trusting that the Spirit still has more to show us.
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