The Capacity to Reason Comes From God!
The social push today is to have reason with no faith in an outside deity. Their cry is to be left alone and not have their lives dictated by what they call an abstract god. Their definitions of God have been a mockery to who He really is, because He isn’t an abstract dictator who really doesn’t care about them. Reason, they say is to live a life that is lived in the here and now, with no thought for what you cannot see.
What if all Americans lived that way. Just because you cannot see the government doesn’t mean that it’s non-existent. Rather if we just open our eyes, we shall see the evidences of the government which resides in another part of the country. Belief in God is a lot like that many of us can see the evidences of His presence, many of us can feel His presence; so come now and reason it out...look at the facts, the evidence, the truth and reason will no longer be ignorance, but will be reality.
When God implanted the seed of life into soul of man part of that included the ability to reason. Without the ability to reason, there is no choice and we become robots following our instincts. Genesis chapter 1 says that mankind was made in the image of God. That means they had a spirit, a soul, and a body; all of which enabled them to make their own choices and carry them out. As early on as Genesis Chapter 3 we see that capability acted on; which was the downfall of the world.
Reason is not always evil, but is a God given ability which He intended for us to use to choose Righteousness, but when we allow a humanistic approach govern our reasoning we will choose evil.
Humanity, as created by God, are highly spiritual beings so the idea that you can have freedom from religion is inaccurate, misleading, and is predicated on Humanism (the worship of humanity and their thought processes) and Atheism (the refusal to acknowledge a higher power) which is also a form of Humanism. It is because of our wicked heart that we are able to rationalize wickedness and is possible due to a disconnect in our spirit. When this happens we are making choices in our soul and the choices are based on feeling and not reality. Even if we choose to disconnect our spirituality from our souls, inevitably we, either in this generation or in the following generations will revert to being spiritual again. Usually this will end up with the antithesis of Christianity and be outright devil worship.
Throughout the entire Word of God, there is a distinct call to look at the truth laid before you and reason or think it through. Isaiah 1:18 Come Let us Reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Joshua said, “Choose you this day whom you will serve”.
The ability to reason things out comes with a great responsibility to guard our hearts from what we cannot see. Usually as humans, we tend to look at the here and now to base our judgments on, and our reasoning becomes flawed, skewed, and lop-sided because we haven’t taken into account the whole picture.
There is a choice that each of us will make. We will either choose to look at life through God’s eyes or we will look at life through the eyes of the god of this world. When we choose to look at our lives through the eyes of God, we will become enlightened and our understanding will become enhanced; while if we choose to look at life through the eyes of the god of this world our understanding will become darkened. When the path isn’t clear, we need light.
Can a person make an intelligent choice when all the facts whether seen or unseen are not taken into consideration? Determine in your own heart what evidence you may be missing.
Luke 20:9-18/Matthew 21:33-46/Mark 12:1-12
Luke 20:1-8
Ephesians 4:17-32
Psalm 119:105
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