“Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are as scarlet,
They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They will be like wool. Isaiah 1:18
As I wrote Thursday, there are times when God conceals an instruction, a promise, or a word of encouragement. He uses these times to draw us closer to Him and deeper into His word. As we unwrap the gift of direction, promise, and God’s love, there are also times when He asks us to go even deeper while we study, ponder, and pray. I call this reasoning with God. It comes from the passage in Isaiah where the Lord says, “Come now, let us reason together.” (Isaish 1:18)
God gives us intelligence, education, knowledge, wisdom, and innumerable resources at our fingertips. He expects us to use them all.
My father—an ordained Lutheran pastor—used to say—referring to Moses’ encounter with God at the burning bush—“God asked Moses to take off his shoes, not his head.” What Dad was saying was that we are to use the brain God gave us to reason out issues.
The key from the Isaiah passage is that the Lord adds the word “together.”
Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon defines “reason” as “to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right.” In other words, sit with the Lord to gain understanding, direction, and confirmation of the steps that He has for you.
The second part of this verse is worth noting in light of reasoning with the Lord for your future. It speaks to the promise of Christ’s death and resurrection on your behalf. It underscores your redemption and salvation from sin, death, and the power of the devil. It is as if God is saying, “Let’s reason together for what is to come without dwelling on the past. Your past is covered in the blood of the Lamb.”
With a clean slate and time to reason with God, Dear One, you can soar unencumbered into the amazing future He has for you.
That’s good news!