What do you want?

What do you want? John 1:38 NIV

One day John the Baptist pointed to Jesus Christ and said, "Look, here is the Lamb of God." Two of John's disciples left him that day and immediately began to follow Jesus. When Jesus realized they were walking behind him, he turned and asked them, "What do you want?"

That is such a good question.

I can see these two guys with their heads down, each nudging the other to answer Jesus' question. Finally, one of them says, "Teacher, where are you staying?"

The other guy must have put his face in his hands. What a dumb answer! Why didn't he say that they were looking for truth, or maybe the kingdom of God?

To be honest, most of the questions I ask God really aren't very profound either. I would love to impress God with my speculations about the inner dynamics of the Trinity, but I'm not up all night thinking about that. The things that keep me up at night are much more trivial.

Most of us don't really yearn for world peace. We might say we do and we think world peace is a good idea, but what we are deeply concerned about are issues like losing weight, that rumor we just heard, or getting our kids to talk to us.

The disciple's question, "Teacher, where are you staying?" was not serious or deep. But here's the thing, Jesus took it seriously and invited those guys to follow him. See, Jesus knew the important thing wasn't the theological importance of the discussion, it was the relationship being built. He knew if they kept asking the trivial, eventually they would learn how much he loved them and their lives would change forever.

There are no dumb questions with Jesus. Frankly, it doesn't matter how trivial our answer is to Jesus. The important part is that we are focusing on him for everything in our lives.

So, what do you want? Take a minute to take that to God, no matter what it is, He wants to hear from you today.