When does questioning become sin?

When is it all right to question God? When does such questioning become sin?

In one view, it's pretty easy to answer those questions, although the answers are a little too open-ended for my satisfaction: God tells us to test Him (1 John 4:1, for example). So it's okay to test.

When does that become sin? When questioning yields an answer that doesn't trust in His will, of course.

Pat answers, sure. Tried and true, you might say, and useless.

So when is it all right to question God? It's important to realize that

Jonah and Reason

I've been studying Jonah in preparation for the men's core training, and it's been ... interesting, and something that really concerns me (and concerns me about a lot in Christian life.)

Jonah's been addressed by some of the greatest minds in Jewish culture - one being the Vilna Gaon, the "Genius of Vilna." He sees Jonah through the mists not only of history, but allegory:

Trust

We are called to trust in the Lord for all things (Proverbs 3:5), but it's one of the hardest things we are called to do, mostly because of the nature of what trust is, and who we are, and how we trust those around us.

Begging your indulgence, here's a story, one you're probably familiar with, and then a changed version to illustrate a point about trust.