A REASONABLE GOD

(Isa_1:18): "Come now, let us go to court [reason] together." He is willing to hear your argument if you think He should do things differently. He is not capricious or arbitrary in His judgment.

God is reasonable to the last.

Atonement was given at Calvary for man's benefit and use.  Yet Christ is received with little enthusiasm by many.

After man has committed high treason against his throne and court, after he has done his best to snap the divine scepter, and insult the divine honor, after he has made himself a disgrace in creation, God says to him, not, " I will cut thee in twain with my glittering sword; I will put my foot upon thee and crush thee into the dust, and defy thee to get thy life again;" but he says, "Come now, let us reason together." This proposition is not only the proof of the grace of God; but that grace itself is the vindication of his righteousness. He knows he is right, and he knows he is right in the court of reason; that if the case be honestly and fully stated the criminal will convict himself, he will burn with shame, and cry out for the judgment that is just.

God is right, and we are wrong in this controversy.

There is a way out for those who will reason with Him. Someone has stated it this way:

Philosophy says: Think your way out.
Indulgence says: Drink your way out.
Politics says: Spend your way out.
Science says: Invent your way out.
Industry says: Work your way out.
Communism says: Strike your way out.
Fascism says: Bluff your way out.
Militarism says: Fight your way out.
The Bible says: Pray your way out, but
Jesus Christ says: "I am the way out"

Merchant advertises the durability of a tire, battery, spark plugs.  The response of the public is great—the crowds come.  Yet these products wear out soon!

 Kelsey Griffin