Conclusion: The Questions Jesus Asks

This book has been about your questions. But it’s worth noticing that Jesus asked a lot of questions too, and His were often harder than ours.

He asked a blind man, “What do you want Me to do for you?” He asked a crowd of people who had come out to see John the Baptist what they had expected to find. And He asked His friends the most important question of all. When the disciples had told Him what other people were saying about Him, He turned to them. “But what about you?” He asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:15–16).

You can’t answer that question for anybody else, and nobody else can answer it for you.

What every chapter has been pointing to

Whether we’ve been talking about evil, the Trinity, hypocrisy, porn, your body, your parents or your past, the same truth keeps coming back. God made you, He loves you, and He has done everything needed to bring you home.

All of us have turned away from Him and gone our own way. But “God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Jesus, fully God and fully man, died in our place and rose bodily from the dead. Because of Him, nothing you have done is too big to be forgiven: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). And no one who trusts Him is a lost cause: “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

That’s an invitation, not a lecture. Jesus said, “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). If you’ve never come to Him, you can come today, honestly, just as you are, and trust Him with your life. If you do, tell a Christian you trust, so they can walk with you.

And if you already follow Him but some of these chapters touched a sore place, hold on to this promise: “He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6). He isn’t finished with you.

Keep going

Keep reading the Bible, especially the Gospels, and keep bringing your questions to God and to people who love Him. Find a church. Find one adult you can ask anything. The Ochorus library is full of people who asked these questions before you: if you haven’t yet, try the Anchored books, the true stories in They Were Young, or a classic such as Tozer’s The Pursuit of God or Chesterton’s Orthodoxy.

Questions are a good place to start. They’re a bad place to hide. The point of asking is to find, and the One you’re looking for has been looking for you first.

Lord Jesus, thank You for every question I’ve been able to bring to You, and for the ones I haven’t dared to ask yet. You know me completely and You still love me. Forgive me where I’ve gone my own way. Heal what has been hurt. Help me answer Your question honestly, and follow You for real, for the rest of my life. In Your name, Amen.