Our Best Option

Have you ever asked a question

That no one answered?

Did you decide there and then

It’d be better to have it cancelled?

Why, after all if no one can answer

Would it not be better

To forget the question

And just do not bother?

Have you ever answered a question

That no one asked?

Did you decide there and then

That was an easy task?

Questions without answers

And answers without questions,

We have all gone mad

What’s the next option?

It is simple, though, if you see what I mean,

We live in a mad, mad world.

So don’t be surprised by verses one and three

It is likely to get more absurd.

A question could be asked

Or a question could be implied

Such that, in this mad, mad world

You may have to decide,

The eyes may say it

And such may implied your task,

Hence you may very well answer a question

That was never really asked.

 

I have seen parents do it

To their children before they asked

Especially when the answer was a no

To whatever the task.

The child might reply,

 

To which the parent responds

So you have already grasped.”

Like the sign that says, don’t bother to ask

The answer is going to be no,

We will both have a pleasant day

If you don’t bother to stop but go.

More questions than answers

You must have heard the song,

But that was long ago

These days that assertion is wrong.

 

For non-existing problems

And feel quite smug with ourselves

Especially when we solve them.

Like the gender issue for example

Which was not a problem

But we created a bank of genders

Well, that should solve them.

An answer bank has been established

With answers of all kinds,

The questions will come later

 

Meanwhile we have questions

To which we can’t find answers,

I guess in light of this established bank

These questions will be cancelled.

For a bank of future answers

Cannot address the present questions

So I must ask this question again,

What is the next option?

There is a book with all the answers

But very dissimilar to this bank,

Do not think I am being facetious

This is seriously not a prank.

The Bible has all of the answers

Its author anticipated our questions,

He knows the end from the beginning

Herein lies our best option.

  

He offers an open invitation

Bring your questions and come,

There’s not a question He can’t answer

And He answers through His Son.

Jesus is God’s begotten Son

In whom we have access,

And together with the Holy Spirit

This option is the best.

Stewart Russell © October 2019