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There is a faith based marketing campaign titled, “He Gets Us.” They use advertising to encourage people to explore their questions about Jesus. Essentially, "Got Questions" is a creative marketing tool by the "He Gets Us" campaign to spark dialogue and invite people to ask questions about Jesus and their personal faith journey. I have no idea who is behind this campaign or what their core theology is and I don't want to start a debate about the content of the television ads they run. I do know this, they have spent millions of dollars to get what appears on the surface as a faith based message into a Superbowl ad and for that I applaud their fortitude and tenacity in witnessing and evangelism. The bible tells us however that cautious skepticism is always important.

1 John 4:1 ESV Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 

When you have questions where or to whom to you turn? For the majority of my life, my “Go to” person to ask both difficult questions and to get reassurance that I am making the right decision is my father. He has always made time to listen to me and to give me simple straight forward advice, without being critical of me. I know you may say that I should be going to God in prayer for the answers I am searching but I have been blessed by God with an earthly father that I know has a personal relationship with God himself and I am confident that the answers he gives me are based on his relationship with God. It is an amazing blessing!!!... to be able to both see in his life actions and hear in his words the way a Christian man should live.

Deuteronomy 6: 6-7 ESV And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

I don't feel like I have any personal abundance of knowledge, or to put it simply, I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I have found that my children on occasion now come to me with their difficult questions. I am not as nice or as patient with my children as my father was with me. Occasionally when they say, “Dad what should I do with my misbehaving teenage child?” I reply with, well I remember a teenage child that once lived in my home that did the same things, do you remember what happened to you?... I know that is not a very nice response, but even in my criticism I want them to pause, cool down and take a deep breath and not fly off the handle with the discipline of their teenage child realizing they once did the same thing. I am thankful that when I have to most difficult questions in life that I am either to shy or to embarrassed to ask my earthly father, I can go to my heavenly father without fear!

James 1:5 ESV If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 

You need wisdom every day. You need wisdom in dating, communication, marriage, parenting, finances, and conflict. You make decisions every day. How you react to your family, what you say to others, or what you don’t say, how you spend your money, how you handle an offense, and how you handle a crisis. Your lifestyle may be the only bible many ever read and for that you need wisdom every day. Got Questions? Ask God!

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