Life; Questioning the Bible Characters

A couple of weeks ago in church, our Deaconess started off her talk by saying that one of the reasons she is looking forward in going to heaven is to meet the biblical legends and ask them questions that she has always wanted to ask them.  For example she has always wanted to ask Moses if he walked or ran across the parted red sea.  That is a good question and the answer would be interesting.

This got me thinking about biblical characters I would like to meet and what questions I would ask them.  

But before I asked any questions, I would like to tell a few people that despite their weaknesses (which we all have) I admire their great strength, courage and their faith in God:

• Noah – for building a boat despite people taunting him
•  Ruth – for following her mother-in-law to a place where she knew no one
•  Abraham – for preparing to sacrifice his child for God
• David  - for going up against Goliath with only a slingshot and five smooth stones

I would also like to say Thank You to David for being so open about how he felt in his songs, the Psalms.

Now to the questions:

• To Noah – how did you manage to keep all the different species of animals in the ark without them eating each other?
• To Joshua – did you not get tired blowing trumpets and walking continuously for six days?
• To Jonah – what was it like inside the belly of the whale?
• To the brothers of Joseph – how did you feel when you saw the brother you discarded had become the ruler of all Egypt?
• To the disciples – what was it like being with Jesus all the time?
• To the little boy whose lunch of five loaves and 2 fishes Jesus used to feed the 5,000 – What went through your mind that day when your little lunch fed so many people?
• To Zacchaeus – what was it like having Jesus staying at your house?
• To Paul -what exactly went through your mind on the road to Damascus?
• To Silas & Timothy – what was it like to work alongside Paul?

There are lots of other questions, especially to Jesus himself. However when it comes to Jesus, there are too many questions and sometimes it is best we do not know the answers and just follow him and trust him.