No one asked the title (John 4:27)
No one asked what it was (John 4:27)
“At that time the disciples returned and were amazed that Jesus was talking to the woman, but no one asked, “What are you asking? Why are you talking to him?” (John 4:27)
Word: It is said that good students ask a lot of questions. But I do not necessarily agree with this statement. In today's text, there is a passage saying that the disciples were very strange when they saw Jesus talking to a lowly Samaritan woman. It was very strange at the time for a man to talk to a woman, even a Samaritan woman, whom the Jews did not treat as a human being. The disciples wondered, but they did not ask.
Why didn't the disciples ask? The reason was that he trusted Jesus thoroughly. There is nothing wrong with Jesus' words and actions. When we trust someone completely, we trust absolutely everything we do. If we, too, trust God completely, we will not ask anything about God.
An example is Abraham. When he was 75 years old, God asked him to leave the home of his father's relatives. At that time, he must have had many things he wanted to ask God. “Why do you want to leave me, who is living a good life? And what kind of land do you want to go to?” But he didn't ask anything. Instead of asking, I obeyed and left my hometown. He believed in God's plan for him.
God, who had a beautiful plan for Abraham's life, has a wonderful plan for us as well. Sometimes it leads us in a direction we don't understand. In that case, would you like to ask them one by one? Or will you obey, confessing, "I don't understand right now, but I trust you will lead me to the best path"
Michael Molinos taught three silences in his book, “Spiritual Christians.” These are the silence of words, the silence of desire, and the silence of thoughts. Instead of questioning God, the Christian simply obeys.
The disciples must have been perplexed when Jesus said, “You give them something to eat,” in front of a crowd of thousands of hungry people. But as time goes on, I realize that it wasn't strange at all. In the Lord, all strange things become normal.
It takes 5 years to learn to speak. But it takes decades to learn silence before God. Silence leads to silent obedience, and obedience of faith leads us to God's blessing.