Sound Reasoning

“‘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

During a recent conversation the concept of thinking for ourselves came up. The conversation bothered me for several days and I finally realized that none of us have to be taught to think for ourselves; it seems to fit right in with the sin nature as does everything else associated with self. Thinking for ourselves is certainly encouraged by the world and can get us into a great deal of trouble if that thinking doesn’t line up with God’s Word and His plan for our lives. Sound reasoning, on the other hand, employs input from the Holy Spirit and is based upon sound doctrine from God’s Word. Sound reasoning steers us away from sin. The Word of God teaches us that our thoughts are not His thoughts and that we are to strive to have the mind of Christ, not of the world.

Many of the thoughts I’ve come up with on my own are the result of a wandering mind, others are down right destructive. We are admonished in 2 Corinthians 10:5 to “take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ”; those are thoughts based on sound reasoning and thoughts that lead to life.