Curiosity requires courage. You must be willing to ask questions even when they threaten everyone around you. Faith is more than believing; it is an act of courage, a bold grasping of God’s truth. Faith is a wrestling match with God, an intense struggle with truth in an attempt to squeeze every bit of knowledge out of it. Curiosity is the shape of our hunger for God. We question God without apology; we march into the presence of God bringing our armfuls of questions – without fear – because God is not afraid of them. People are afraid. Institutions are afraid. But God is not
Children are possessed with certain inalienable rights, and one of them is the right to ask questions anytime and anywhere. We have these same rights because we are the children of God. Let us ask our questions boldly, courageously, like a little child.
Michael Yaconelli, Dangerous Wonder (NavPress, Colorado Springs, CO: 2003), 45.
(NavPress, Colorado Springs, CO: 2003), 45. 