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Top 7 Bible Verses About Curiosity

Top 7 Bible Verses About Curiosity

Last updated on: November 28, 2016 at 10:20 am by Jack Wellman

Top 7 Bible Verses About Curiosity 2016-11-28T10:20:30-06:00 Jack Wellman

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Here are seven great Bible verses relating to curiosity.

Acts 1:7 “He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.”

Far too often Christian teachers or pastors have tried to predict Jesus’ coming but they had 0% reliability. It seems that they just don’t understand that Christ said, “It is not for you to know times or seasons” because “the Father has fixed by his own authority” the time of Jesus Christ’s second coming. Jesus gave them many signs that the disciples were to look for, but “these are but the beginning of the birth pains” (Matt 24:8), and just as a mother or the doctor’s don’t know the exact time of a baby’s birth, neither can we know the exact time of Jesus’ return. We can see the birth pangs but still not know when the birth will happen. This type of curiosity does no one any good, and in fact, it does much harm to the cause of Christ because they fail time and time again.

John 21:21-22 “When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?” Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!”

When Jesus was telling the Apostle Peter about the end of his life, Peter wanted to know about the Apostle John and how his life would end, but Jesus simply told them, “It’s none of your business,” so “You follow me!” It’s not good to speculate about things where the Scriptures are not crystal clear and it only leads to error or disappointment. Some interpreted this to mean “that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, ‘If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you’” (John 21:24), so Jesus said to Peter that all he needs to be concerned about is to “Follow Me.”

Proverbs 25:2-3 “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable.”

God has revealed many things to us in Scripture and we can clearly know these things, but beyond this, we enter into areas that are human speculations about things that we do not need to know. For example, some ask questions about things where the Bible is silent, but if the Bible is silent on these questions, we have no business asking about them or trying to figure things out on our own. What’s outside of Scripture is impossible to prove, so where the Bible is silent, so should we be, because “it is the glory of God to conceal things.”

Deuteronomy 29:29 “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

This verse is close to what Solomon wrote in Proverbs 25:2-3 and that is we should recognize that some things are not for us to know, otherwise, God would have revealed them to us in His Word and we wouldn’t have to guess. The secret things are things for only God to know and they belong to Him and not to us. Thankfully, the plain things are the main things and that is we need to repent and trust in Christ. His will is that “we may do all the words of this law,” and not to solve all biblical mysteries. It’s not productive to ask about things where the Bible doesn’t address them.

Exodus 3:2-3 “And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

When Moses saw a burning bush in the wilderness, he must have been very curious about it. He’d seen his share of bushes in the wilderness before, being a shepherd for forty years, and he had probably seen a few bushes burning in the desert, but never had he seen a bush that was burning, yet not consumed. Who wouldn’t be curious about that?

First Peter 1:10-11 “Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.”

The Apostle Peter only later understood that the Scriptures had been testifying of Christ since the very beginning (Gen 3:15) and, as Peter wrote, “It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look” (1st Pet 1:12), so even the angels were curious about salvation, yet we don’t have to be because all who repent and trust in Christ will be saved. That’s no secret.

Luke 9:9 “Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he sought to see him.”

King Herod was an evil king and shortly after he was tricked into having John the Baptist beheaded, he heard about Jesus’ ministry, including His miracles, however all that Herod wanted was a free show, that’s all. He was curious to see the miracles Jesus did but didn’t care about Who it was doing these miracles and why He was doing them. His curiosity didn’t help in this case because Jesus simply ignored Herod’s desire to see Him. Jesus knew that Herod wanted to see Him for the wrong reasons.

Conclusion

Curiosity is one thing, but speculation is another. We can’t guess or be curious about things where the Bible is not clear or specific about. The things that we need to know are obvious in Scripture but the things that are not so clear or where the Bible is silent are areas we would do well to avoid. God doesn’t want us to focus on the things we can’t know for sure but on the things that are as plain as day and that is we are to come to Him in faith and repent of our sins and then put our trust in Him. That’s the only way we can be saved. Anything else we seek to know is clearly non-essential which means, it’s not essential for us to know.

Article by Jack Wellman

Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren Church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book Teaching Children the Gospel available on Amazon.

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