It is in the nature of man to seek answers, and in that quest, he learns what questions to ask. In this manner, he will find the right answers to the right questions. This is the path to wisdom. It is a wise man who holds court with God and bows to His judgment, knowing that justice will be served.
But answers are never the starting point. A man begins in confusion, in longing, in the ache of not knowing. And in that ache, he learns, slowly and painfully, what questions to ask. This is the first mercy of wisdom: that God does not drown us in explanations but teaches us how to inquire. The right answers come only to the right questions, and the right questions come only to the humbled heart. A proud man demands clarity. A wise man kneels and listens.
To hold court with God is not to prosecute Him, nor to sit in judgment over His ways. It is to stand as a creature before his Creator, to bow to the verdict before it is spoken — not because he is crushed, but because he trusts the One who speaks. For he knows that justice will be served, not the thin justice of human retaliation, but the deep justice that sets the world right and purifies the soul that seeks Him.
Wisdom is not the triumph of the intellect. It is the alignment of the heart. It is the moment a man stops asking, "How can I make sense of God?" and begins asking, "How can I be made worthy to stand in His light?"
And when a man reaches that place — when he bows not in fear but in trust — he discovers that the God he questioned is the God who has been questioning him all along, not to taunt him, but to make him whole.
