Do you ever wonder why Jesus always answered questions with asking a question? When people do that it seems like they are avoiding the question or do not have the answer to it, but not so in Christ's case. I have been reading a book that is going through the life of Christ and this question came into my head. The graciousness of Jesus is seen so clearly in this if you just take a look, He has all the answers but He was more interested in the people understanding on their own than He was with answering all the mysteries of all time while He was here on earth. I believe it just gives a little more insight on free choice/free will, Jesus gave us the opportunity to answer instead of making us robots to His will.
Just like the questions the unbeliever asks of God " If He is a God of love then why doesn't He solve all of the problems in the world?" There are many ways of dealing with that question and I believe one of them is, because He wants us to choice Him ourselves. If Christ came to save the world, which He did, then why would He force it and at the same time die the death He did? Just as Christ was not interested in the easy ways out that Satan presented to Him in the desert during His temptations, with Peter , when Christ rebuked Him" Get thee behind me Satan..." and when on the Cross with the jeers of the crowd "If you are God then save yourself...". In a world that is interested in " Your life now" and "how can we make the best of this life, now", Christians have to remember that this is but a vapor and life only begins when it ends for us here on earth. We store up for ourselves treasures in heaven where moth and rust can't corrupt and where thieves cannot break in and steal, then why do we cling to all of the things around us. Life would be much more joyful if we understood where our citizenship is.
Well this post really didn't have a theme I guess and it took two different turns in the end, but think about them...