TltESATisfiEd By J. RICHARD CHASE
“Come 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.” Isaiah 1:18
The Christian life is far more a life of reason than a life of feeling or impulse. It begins when we understand our need and accept God’s gift of forgiveness and eternal life in Christ. The prophet Isaiah was challenged to think and assess his life when he saw the Lord “high and lifted up.” The contrast was so obvious, he replied, “Woe is me for I am undone.” The prodigal son returned to the father only after he came to his senses as he considered his need and his father’s pro vision (Luke 15:17, 18). The New Testament epistles are powerful testi monies to the reasoned response the Christian must make as he faces the decisions of living for Christ. A strange situation is developing today. Instead of trying to prove to the non-believer that the Christian life is rational and reasonable rather than the product of fantasy or fear, the Christian must now defend the very reasonableness of reason itself. A recent Time essay suggests that the world’s gone mad. The essay states: “reason and logic have, in fact, become dirty words—death words. They have been replaced by the life words feeling and impulse. . . . Sanity is snobbishly looked down upon as uptight and bourgeois.” (Time, March 13, 1972,
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