The beauty and importance of biblical wrestling

There are two things to know about me: first, is that I’m an anti-conflict person, second, I was raised to believe that there is only one correct way to read and interpret the Bible. So naturally growing up when things about the world, the Bible, and God didn’t make sense to me I put them in a box and stacked it in a pile and as I grew up those piles of questions grew into doubt.
In my high school years I didn't have a lot of people to ask hard questions to, or I did have them but I was too embarrassed to ask or too worried that they would think I was a bad christian for thinking like that.
After high school I began to learn the importance of wrestling through my questions during my time at Off The Wall. I found safe spaces in people who welcomed my questions and didn’t shame me for them, people who had asked many of the same questions and showed me how to look at the bible in different ways. 
The Bible is so rich in knowledge and God is abounding in wisdom he wants to share, we just have to ask. The more I began to study the bible and ask deep and sometimes scary questions, my love and awe for God grew drastically! I no longer feared that my questions would pull me away from God but rather they became the catalyst that pushed me head over heels in love with Him. 
All of this is why I think it is so important that we need to welcome our youth's questions and not shame them for them. We need to teach them that questions are a natural and healthy process of a growing and blossoming relationship with God. It is imperative that we teach them find answers in scripture that push them towards God or the world will be happy to answer their questions and draw them away from Him.

- Kajsa Coblentz