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The Mark Driscoll Podcast

How to Ask God a Question

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Ever have a question for God? You don't have to take a number, in this podcast we discuss how to ask God a question. 

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0:00.0

It is good. I'll reiterate that. It's good to have questions for God, not accusations of God.

0:06.4

Accusations of God are God, I know what you're doing, I know what you're thinking, I know what your plan is,

0:11.7

and I don't like it. So I'm convening a court I will hammer the

0:15.1

gavel and I will render a verdict and I find you guilty needing to give an account

0:19.6

to me I would just encourage you don't do that.

0:23.0

Instead it's good to go to God, not with accusations,

0:25.6

but with questions.

0:27.0

Questions such as God, I don't know what you're doing.

0:29.0

God, I don't understand.

0:30.1

God, I'm very confused.

0:31.6

God, life is very hard, things are very complicated. I am having a tremendously difficult time

0:38.0

reconciling my experience with your for God. And he does it here. Here's his conversation with God. This is basically a line from

0:55.8

his journal. He's letting us peer into his life and relationship with God. He says, God, are you

1:01.1

not from everlasting, oh Lord, my God?

1:04.2

You're my God, and I know who you are.

1:07.1

My holy one, we shall not die.

1:09.6

Oh Lord, you have ordained them, these bad guys,

1:12.3

these horrible people, these evil people that are

1:14.2

creating great stress and distress on the earth it's one of those days where the

1:19.1

bad guys are winning and the quote-unquote good are weeping. It feels a lot like our

1:24.5

present cultural condition and you, O'Roc, have established them for reproof. You who

1:30.1

are pure eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong.

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