This passage is important to understand. It’s about the sensible thing. God wants to have a sit-down with us. It’s a remarkable offer and way of saying we need to come to our senses.
Isaiah 1: 18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
God does want us to do the sensible thing. He is not a man, and we need to learn we are not God. Nothing about us is divine. If you are saved, what you have is spiritual. As Christian people we are saved but not divine. We all have intelligence. Some may think they are smarter than others, but the truth of the matter is we’re all smarter than others in some areas and dumber in some areas. We all need God. We’ve been given intelligence, given a personality, and we live life with a purpose. Yes. God has a purpose for each of us. We need to realize our spiritual need of God and the affect sin has on us. Seeing our reality and the source of our problems shows us our need to come and reason with God. With our intelligence came some sensibility. We just need to use it. When I find myself in trouble spiritually, many times it is because I didn’t use my common sense. Look before you leap. Think before you act. Consider before you speak. All these are sensible things to do.
We have an invitation from God to come and reason with him. He could shut the door on us. If you’re not saved, he could decide not to save you. Thankfully he offers salvation to all. It’s time to set aside excuses and delusions. It’s time to set pride aside. Set aside whatever keeps you from humbling your heart to God. Tune out all the other stuff and use your common sense. It makes sense to get saved. It makes sense for a Christian to live right, to trust the Bible. All of creation has a sensibility and order to it. It works. We live in a crazy world. The Lord says he’s given us enough sense to sit down and reason with him.
Come now and let us reason together. It’s not about coming to him and doing all the talking and offering opinions and beliefs. That’s what’s wrong. We do all the talking and don’t stick around to see what God says. We read over and through and around the answers in his Word and just won’t listen to him. It is God and me. It’s God and you. We talk, but we have to listen. We have to be obedient to him. The only way for it to work is by reasoning together. He’s so much higher than we are; he’s light years above and ahead of us, more intelligent than all of us put together. All of man’s learning has brought us to the conclusion that we don’t know a great deal in the grand scheme of it all. God created and runs the universe. He’s a high, magnificent God who is willing to come to our level and speak in terms we understand. We have the English translation of the Bible, but he speaks every language. He speaks to us at our level of understanding. Even little children can understand God. He understands us. Are we willing to understand him?
He says come and reason. Be sensible. Are you saved? I’m not asking about your viewpoints or opinions. Are you really saved? Use your common sense not what others say or think. Are you in tune with God? Have you obeyed the gospel and done what you need to be saved? If not, you are not saved. Do the sensible thing and get saved. Christian, are you doing what God wants? Are you being what God wants? Come now. Not later. We should have already come. His voice jumps out to us through the scripture. It speaks loud and clear. That means he’s close enough to hear. He stooped down pretty low for us. That was the message of Christmas. He came down from heaven to the stable. He came the distance. Have you gone yours? Are you being reasonable?
God speaks to us as if he knows all about us. He does that because he does know. He knows us better that we know ourselves, more than our best friend. In fact, he is our best friend. He’s been there every day of our life and knows us inside out. He’s willing to sit down and reason with us.
Have you got something to talk to God about? He’s waiting. He’ll listen, and then you need to listen to him. What he says is for your good. You’ll like the benefit of what he says. Abraham saw God wanted to reason with him. They connected and Abraham was called the friend of God. You’re invited to connect with him. Be honest with him. Tell it all. Then sit long enough to hear what he says and you’ll be helped. He says though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. God knows our sins and the color of them. Sins may be gray to us, but what does God say? Sin is not white. It’s not gray. It’s not transparent. It’s not invisible. Sin may be invisible to the preacher, but it’s visible to God. They are most bright—bright red, blood red. Guess what had to be shed for our forgiveness—blood, red blood. Why did Jesus have to sacrifice his blood? That’s the color of our sin.
A holy God invites unholy people to sit with him, to reason with him from a common-sense perspective. Do it now. If you do that, your sins will be white as snow. God can do that and only God. When you leave the table from sitting with him, you will leave clean, free, and delivered. You’ll leave happy. We have an invitation we can’t turn down. Take God up on it.
Come now and reason with the Lord. See what happens.
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