Isidor Isaac Rabi, one of America’s outstanding physicists, became a scientist for one overpowering reason. He said, “I couldn’t help it.” Brought to this country as an infant, he has never forgotten his mother’s daily query when he came home from public school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side: “Did you ask any good questions today?”
Some questions are good to ask, but others are not and can be untimely. Take for example, the account of Jesus healing a man born blind in John 9:1-12. We read in verses 1-2, “And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?” Other questions appear in this account, too. In verse 8 we read, “The neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?” In verse 10, “Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?” However, among all of these questions came one that stands out, and it is one that many people ask about the Savior today: “Then said they unto him, Where is he?” (v. 12).
It amazes us how the people were focused on such questions. Yet, the one question in verse 12 is one of worthy consideration. A good answer would be the statement that Paul made in Acts 17:27, where Luke recorded, “That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.”
It is necessary for men to seek after the Lord, although He is not far from us. How is the Lord near to us? He is a vital part of our lives. He gives us life, the ability to move, reason and our very existence. Solomon said the whole duty of man was to fear God and keep His commandments (Ecclesiastes 12:13). He is near us every minute of every day. He knows all about us.
