Two Dangerous Questions: Overview

When a wife asks certain Dangerous Questions, a wise husband senses the landmines ahead. Veteran husbands deftly tiptoe around the questions, but rookies often naively give the wrong answer – but only once. After a few battle scars, they also learn how to avoid the pitfalls. Here are a few examples: *

Question: Do these pants make my (insert whatever here) look fat?
Wrong Answers:
· Yes
· Compared to what?
· Oh My God!
· Not now, I’m watching the game

Question: How do I compare with your old girlfriend?
Wrong Answers:
· You really want me to answer that?
· Which one?
· She was prettier
· Not now, I’m watching the game

Question: What are you thinking?
Wrong Answers:
· Oh, nothing
· Who I might marry if you die first
· How those pants make your (whatever) look bigger
· Not now, I’m watching the game

Question: Are you listening to me?
Wrong Answers:
. No
. Huh?
. Were you talking to me?
. Not now, I’m watching ………..

When I have my Quiet Time, I ask God two questions. Over the years I’ve found that they are Dangerous Questions because He tends to answer in ways I never expected.

Just before I start reading that day’s Bible passage, I ask Him the first question: “Lord, what you want to say to me today?” At the end of my reading I ask, “Lord, what do You want me to do today?” Let’s begin by looking at the first question before moving on to the second one.

I’m currently reading through the Book of Acts – not studying it, but reading it devotionally. Sometimes a phrase jumps out at me and I sense God is whispering something to me. So I answer Him like two friends having a conversation.

Acts 1:1-8 describes the Lord’s final meeting with the disciples before His Ascension. He tells them to stay in Jerusalem until the coming of the Holy Spirit. Then, once they are filled with the Spirit, they are to be His witnesses in increasingly wider areas.

I’ve read Acts 1:8 many times; in fact, it’s a verse I memorized a long time ago. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

This time, as I read verse 8, I sensed God whispering to me. For the first time I understood why I wasn’t consistently experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit as His witness. To my shame I was engaging in a habitual sin pattern that immediately disconnected me from God’s power. It was like being hit between the eyes by a runaway truck. I stopped, confessed my sins, and asked Him to forgive me.

Before you begin reading the day’s Bible passage, ask God the first dangerous question. “Lord, what do you want to say to me today?” Then start reading and notice when something in the passage jumps out at you. You’ll know it because your mind or body will react to it.

Listen carefully. God has nudged you for a reason. There’s something He wants to say to you related to what you just read. Tell Him what you sense in your spirit. Then have a conversation with Him.

This approach will make your relationship with the Lord come alive. Your walk with Christ will become more real, personal, exciting, and moment by moment.

* Adapted from “Dangerous Questions Women Ask”

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