As an educator (corporate), one of the things I stress in my classes is that there are no silly questions. If you do not ask, you will not get an answer.
“16And behold, a man came up to him, saying, ‘Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?’” – Matthew 19:16 (ESV)
Here, “The Rich Young Man” is asking Jesus about what he needs to do to get to heaven. Whereas Jesus gives an answer that the man does not want to hear, without the act of asking the question, the man would still be looking for something in all the wrong places.
I have taught sales processes and philosophies and while there are a number of them out there that people ascribe to, the one thing they all seem to have in common is the asking for the sale. One has to believe that “if you don’t ask, you don’t get”. In other words, in order to make the sale, you have to ask for the sale. I think this is one of the keys to getting what you are looking for, you have to ask.
Now, as with “The Rich Young Man”, you may not get the answer you were looking for, however you will get an answer and then you have decisions to make based on the response. You will need to decide if it is worth, to you, the effort, work, and sacrifice you will have to put forth to get what you are looking for. But it all starts with the questions.
Questions are our way of finding out, and we have to be willing to ask in order to get. I use the statement “ignorance is okay because you don’t know what you don’t know, but ignorance by design is a problem, when you choose not to know that is on you”.
Are you willing to ask the questions? Will you decide to discover what is needed for you? Will you ask questions to receive the answers as if your eternal life depends on it?
Trevor's Thoughts 