The Answers To Questions

Part One

By Father Janusz

    When our lives become more experienced, when we look more often for the sense of our present and future times, we receive good answers. These can build our foundation, and we need a strong foundation. What to do and how to do it? I would like to be sure that these answers are the best. I am a person who believes in God, who belongs to the church, therefore I should find my very important answers in my church. The church gives me the word of God. These words of God I find in the bible every day. Do you read the bible?

    Every day I am looking for answers about my life. I am wondering about the first questions in the old and new testament and also about two questions which finish the old and new testament. I found a very interesting message which was given to us by God. Let’s look closer at these questions.

    The first question will be found in the first book of the bible, the book of Genesis in Chapter 3: 1. “Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden”? This question is at the same time a lie. The snake asked a question of Eve. In this sentence it’s easy for us to notice a hidden lie, especially when we remember what God said to Adam. “You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and bad. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die”. Genesis 2: 16-17. The snake (evil) changed the meaning of the words of God because he

figured this would be the best way to start communication with human beings. This conversation became the beginning of the last, which we have here with the first temptation of the world. He knows our strength and development of our spiritual lives. Evil is a very intelligent spirit, trying to fill our daily problems with easy promises. The temptation is the same, always the same question, “Did God say that…” The best for us is to discuss this.

      The second question which finishes the old Testament is about “fall”. This question we found in the Book of Malachi, 3:13-14. “You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God and what do we profit by keeping his command, and going about in penitential dress in awe of the Lord of hosts?” That is the last speech of the prophet about people, who do the evil work. These kind of situations on behalf of people give bad example to believers and people who love God. Scandal can lead to imitation of the weak one. Today we often hear what kind of reason do I have to go to Church?  What do I gain from obeying the commandments? Where is justice? Some people don’t do anything and they do well? A man who on the way discovers divine mercy of God will never ask these kind of questions. God set up to look for fallen people, to give them hope, support them by love, and let them know it is time to stand up and to continue your journey with Me.