Our mental habit of reasoning is something we inherit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Our decisions were never intended to be made from this vantage point. Before the fall man’s sense of right and wrong was in the hands of God. By eating from the tree they obtain a sense of right and wrong from a source other than God Himself. To this day, man doesn’t feel like he needs God to provide a sense of right and wrong. He has it in himself. This is how God can command us pray, fast, tithe, love, etc… and yet we still manage to reason our way out of obeying God and right into satan’s rebellious hands.
The devil employs all kinds of reasons to enslave us so that we, instead of following God, are at odds with Him. The devil reasoned with Eve until her thoughts were anti-God. Although, she saw God daily, she did not recognize His authority. She saw a tree that was good for food, pleasing to the eye and could make one wise. She did not listen to God, because now she had her reasons. Oh my! How often have we reasoned our way out of obedience to almighty God?
Paul says these reasons are like skyscrapers blocking your town from the sun. He tells us to destroy these reasons along with everything else that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. We do this by governing our thoughts. It takes thought to build reasons. We must bring every thought to the obedience of Christ (God’s authority).
Prayer
Father, You are the only source of my life. I am governed by Your authority and not my reasons. I bring my thoughts under the obedience of Christ, today. Amen.
Go Deeper?
Gen 2-3; Rom.12:1-5; Phil.4:8-9; 2Cor. 2:11, 3:14; 4:4; 11:3
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