The phrase “Above My Pay Grade” means I don’t have the knowledge or authority to decide or make that decision.
Have you really had a conversation with a child? They ask some very intriguing questions. There was a show on CBS that was called “Kids Say The Darnest Thing”. They are correct. Adults would ask kids questions, while they hear the child’s reply. Kids asked all kinds of questions and if you asked them a question, their reply would blow your mind. My son, Jay, when he was a child would ask me some baffling questions. When I pause to think of some of the questions that he asked me, I would simply tell him, “Only God knows that answer or that is above my pay grade”.
These are just a few questions and answers from the show, “Kids Say The Darnest Things”:
Question: Who was George Washing’s wife?
Answer: Miss America.
Question: Should a man be with an older or younger woman?
Answer: That’s why I gotta get the older ones, “cause they are
more mature and they got money and stuff.
Question: What happens to a cut when it heals?
Answer: It goes down here, in your blood, then it will go in
another country.
Question: What ever happened to Adam and Eve?
Answer: God sent them to Hell and then transferred them to
Los Angeles.
Most people are naturally curious. We wonder why things are the way they are and we investigate them, whether that’s exploring the great cosmos or simply checking the latest blogs to see what’s happening in some actor or actress life.
There are many “Above My Pay Grade” questions that people will ask. Here are a few that I read on the internet: (1) A dad said that his 5 year old daughter asked him, “How do I know that I am real and not just a dream of someone else?" (2) "What did it feel like on your last day of being a child?" (3) "Why do we have to be born young and grow old, why can’t we be born old and get young?" (4) "What’s faster? Fire or Dust?"
Even adults asks the craziest questions. You know what? It is above their pay grade and mine too. Some questions we will never know the answers to, and it is not meant for us to know them. These are some the questions that I have heard adults ask my husband when he was pastoring. (1) "Why can’t God just wave his hand and destroy the devil?" (2) "Where did Satan get the power to tempt us into all of our sins?" (3) "Why do I have to die before I can go to heaven?" Maybe, it was their inner-child reaching out for help with answers to these questions.
There are somethings that can be explain and there are others that will remain a mystery. We all have some legitimate questions about the Bible, whether we vocalize them or not. I know a few questions have popped-up in my head, but I also know, that they all are, “Above My Pay Grade” questions and anyone else’s.
My questions are:
" What happened to Eden? The forbidden fruit had been eaten and mankind was banished from the Garden of Eden. So what happened to Eden?"
AND
"Where did Melchizedek come from? Seemingly out of nowhere, Melchizedek bursts onto the scene in Genesis 14, venturing out from a city call Salem, to bless Abraham and offer a sacrifice. Melchizedek was also the ruler of Salem, and his name means king of righteousness."
All throughout the Bible, God reminds us that there are mysteries. In Colossians, He wants us to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. In Proverbs 25:2, “It's the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out”. In Timothy 3:16, “Great indeed, we confess is the mystery of godliness…” Even Jesus was a mystery before the New Testament. God open the door for the Word to declare the mystery of Christ.
Yelp, somethings will always be a mystery and there will be questions that we will not be able to answer, because they “Are Above Our Pay Grade.” However, when we get to heaven, we all can sit at God’s feet and ask Him all of the questions we want, because only God knows the answers.
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