In Search of an Answer

Nick was highly educated, he had studied for years and had all the letters after his name. He was a trained educator skilled in the school of the right answers. Yet there was a nagging uncertainty that haunted him. "Have I asked the right questions?" You see it's not the answers that qualify a person it is the questions they ask that leads them to the truth. Yet the scholastic community that Nick was part of shunned the kind of questions he wanted to ask.

Publicly he would play the answers game but privately he would ask his questions, "can a person really change and start life over again or are we forever a victim of our circumstances and choices?", " Do we pretend on the outside or really change on the inside?". These questions led Nick on a search for the truth. Out of the gaze of his academic community Nick set out on a personal journey.

The journey led him to a person rather than a proposition. If he was to find the answer to his questions he would first have to deal with the person of Jesus. You see no one debates the quality and substance of his teaching. He (Jesus) is a GREAT teacher yet his claims go far beyond principles and techniques to put into practice. He is talking about a life that is radically changed "born again". This is not some 7-step process that we do but a work done by God. Here is where Nick faced the greatest challenge ever. For all his life he had depended on his own "smarts" and efforts, now he was being told that he couldn't change as the results of his own efforts but would have to trust in another to bring about the change he desired. His questions led him to a person, the person led him to a place of life and faith. The ball was now back in Nick's court.

Would he go back to the safety of his own answers or would he follow his questions that would lead him to life? Check out John 3:1-21.

Have you asked the right questions?
What games do you play to preserve your "right answers"?
Are you on the journey to truth? Where and to whom is it leading you?