我们前几天一直在讨论「为甚么我们有时会满足于容易找到的答案」，今天我们将继续思考这个问题。当我们为耶稣基督而生活，每天都必须面对许多难解的问题，例如：我应该让儿女看某个电视节目吗？神是否带领我接受一份新工作？为甚么我会那么容易堕入试探？我应该听从医生的吩咐服食抗抑郁药物吗？……种种需要我们作决定的问题显示出我们的犹豫，让我们不能不承认我们对生活的事物总是存有那么多的疑惑。

圣经清楚地处理某些问题，但对某些问题却没有给我们清晰的教导。有时我们需要与不能确定的事情挣扎一番。我们被教导要继续停留在疑虑中，这种说法有时实在不容易接受，因为我们内心存在一股很大的压力，迫切的需要把疑惑减低到可以被忽略的地步。焦虑的情绪推动我们去为自己的世界寻求安定的秩序，也就是因此导致我们变得十分脆弱。

多年前我曾经感到相当困扰，我不认同那些医治布道的做法，我觉得那是很不负责的行为，但我不明白为甚么有些聪明的基督徒会接受这观念，情愿付出大笔金钱、放弃正统的治疗转而去做一些古怪的事情。后来我明白了，因为这些「医治者」为求助者以及他们的家人提供一些能带来希望的「答案」，而这些所谓的答案比怀着疑虑来生活更容易让人接受。神确实会医治病人，但有的时候祂却不这样做，不管我们是多么迫切的祈求。我们如何处理这种疑虑的困扰，完全是取决于我们属灵生命成熟的程度。

We continue thinking through the issue of why it is that we settle for easy answers. Every day we face tough questions as we live our lives for Jesus Christ. Should I let my children watch a certain television programme? Is God leading me into a new job? Why am I so prone to fall under the power of temptation? Should I use anti-depressants as the doctor says I should? These and other questions demand decisions that expose our uncertainty and force us to recognise how deeply confused we are about certain issues

The Bible addresses some issues clearly, but on others it is not so clear. Sometimes we have to struggle with uncertainty. It is unappealing to be told that we have to go on in the midst of confusion, and we feel a great inner pressure to reduce the confusion to a point where it can be ignored. Motivated by anxiety, we seek to impose an order on our world - and it is at this point that we become extremely vulnerable.

In earlier years I used to be deeply perplexed about why intelligent Christian people bought into the ideas of some of the less responsible healing evangelists, who got them to pledge huge sums of money, give up medical treatment and do the strangest things. But then I realised that these men were providing the people who came to them with hopeful "answers" about their physical condition or that of their loved ones, and this was easier than living with confusion. God does heal, but sometimes He doesn't - no matter how hard we pray. And the way we handle this confusion determines our spiritual maturity.