Hold All Questions Until the end

Are you waiting on the Lord for something but asking, why God why? When God when? How God How? What if you are blocking your answer by asking the questions.

Have you ever been going through a situation where you had to “wait on the Lord”? Perhaps, a situation where you can’t quite see the end anywhere in sight? Maybe it is hard to understand how God is going to be able to work it all out? Are you are facing that situation now? Perhaps, you are standing on a promise and you have no doubt that God will work it out but you still want to know how. We hear “wait on the Lord” and you are. However, you still find yourself asking questions, with seemingly no answer in return. “When God when, why God why, How God How”? At some point we all get here.

Recently, I witnessed a friend going through a rather lengthy a process that involved many unknowns. She had asked me to partner with her in prayer. I witnessed her running herself into a frenzied sort of state trying to figure out what going to happen and how to best position herself for any possible outcome. All the while standing on a promise and knowing that God was going to work this out in her favor. Of course, on the day of decision, God showed up in a mighty way with mind-blowing results. However, leading up to the final sentence in the situation I began to ask God questions, but how? why? When? As I began to spin out in directions that were inconsequential to what was actually happening, I heard the Lord say,

“Hold all questions until the end please”

I paused in my tracks. This reminded me of the zoom meetings we’ve become so accustomed too. Where the main presenter asks to hold questions because they know that by the end of the presentation most questions, if not all will be answered. They want to prevent interruption, distraction, and side conversations that take away from the purpose. In some instances, they know that the topics ahead will completely change the trajectory in such away rendering all possible questions obsolete anyway.

God certainly loves to dialog with us, but how many times to we want to know all the details before we get to the end of a process? It made me think of a few “meetings” I’m having with God right now where I am delaying it because I am having trouble trusting His process and holding all my questions until the end. Stepping out in faith, surrendering by faith… trusting God’s process and surrendering my self. Surrendering what I think is my “need”, right or maybe better said, entitlement to know the full plan.

So what do we do about it?

We dive a little deeper and see what scripture says. In revelations we read,

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Revelation 21:13

I particularly like that this scripture is the exact same in every translation. This just reiterates to me the point. In Exodus, when Moses begins to question the how and why the Lord is going to work his situation out He simply says, ” I am that, I am”. That was His solution to Moses. It was also the solution to the people He was sending Moses to as well. What if Moses had stood there asking questions and waited for God to explain everything He was about to do? Wait, God you are going to what with what?

God is confident in who He is and in His plan. He wants us to be also as we, yes… Wait on the Lord. We strengthen our relationship and our witness as we surrender our need to know and just Trust Him. This gives Him room to do the miraculous that is “Far above and exceeding greater than anything we could hope or ask for (Ephesians 3:20). I think fair to say God did far more than anything Moses could have imagined to even ask for.

Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth

Psalm 46:10

Trust in and rely confidently on the LORD with all your heart And do not rely on your own insight or understanding.

Proverbs 3:5