August 29, 2019
Matthew 22:46
 No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.
New International Version (NIV)
                “No further questions, your Honor.”  In myriad court-room dramas we have heard attorneys conclude their questioning of the witness in this way.  Has anyone ever answered all your questions?  What are you sure you want to ask God someday? 

                When Jesus entered Jerusalem in the triumphal entry for the last week of his earthly life before the crucifixion, he spent each day in the temple courts.  There the religious intelligentsia lobbed their question bombs at Jesus.  They played “Stump the Savior” all week, to no avail.  A Pharisee asked, “Do we have to pay taxes?”  A Sadducee proposed a preposterous scenario of multiple brothers marrying the same woman after each in turn died.  “In the resurrection, whose wife will she be?”  That will stump him.  Nope.  What is the greatest commandment?  “Love the Lord your God with all . . . and love your neighbor as you love yourself.”  “Got it,” said the religious expert.  Then Jesus said, “My turn . . . whose Son is the Messiah?”  That sounded easy until it wasn’t.  “No further questions, your honor.”

                I wonder.  When we get to heaven, will we really ask God lots of questions?  Will we grill him and put him through his paces and give him a piece of our minds (which we can’t afford to lose anyway)?  Or will we in awe, like Job, simply bow and say, “No further questions, your Majesty”?  Michael Card once sang, “Could it be you make your presence known so often by your absence.  Could it be that questions tell us more than answers ever do?  Could it be that you would really rather die than live without us?  Could it be the only answer that means anything is you?”  Good questions!
Pray with me:    
Father, you are infinite and we are finite.  Fountainhead of knowledge and wisdom, we humbly admit that we are not in a position to challenge your understanding.  Your understanding no one can fathom.  Who has ever been your advisor?  We readily confess that there is so much we do not yet know.  Give us this grace today:  let us know you better at the end of this day than we did at the dawning of it.  Let us know Christ in the power of his resurrection and the participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death and so, somehow attaining to the resurrection from the dead.  Give us grace to know you who exercise kindness, justice and righteousness on the earth.  For in this you delight.  In Jesus’ name.  Amen.   
This year our Every Day with Jesus readings will follow The Bible Project Read Scripture Plan.  Copies of this reading plan are available at Tallowood Baptist Church, or download 
the app at readscripture.org.  Read through the Bible with us in 2019!
Joyfully, 
Duane 
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