Can it be that we have lost the ability to truly ask questions? Ask real questions, with no hidden agenda - Ask questions and actually listen and consider their response - Ask real questions and not formulate a rebuttal that proves our point - Ask questions with the mindset that it’s OK for someone to know something that we don’t?
Have we gotten so comfortable in our opinionated arrogance that we forgot the fact that we need each other? that we can learn from each other - that we benefit from the knowledge and wisdom of another?
Have we disregarded the experience of our elders and those that have walked the path a little further than us? Throughout history, elders were respected and sought out for their wisdom - do we now avoid them?
Are we really so great in thought even though we are so young in age? Why do we think so highly of our own opinions, perspectives, and experiences? Do they now dictate our “truth”? Do they now fuel the majority of our discussions, debates, and dissentions?
To ask a question, a real question, is to admit our inferiority and interdependence - It is a humbling thing to regard ourselves below another…so is the root of the problem our fear of humility?
May we grow…
Philippians 2:3-4 - Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
I Corinthians 12:22 - 25 - On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
Romans 12:3-6 - Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given us.