It is Not Reasonable to Live by Man's Reason Alone

While following the Lord, people often come to the end of their logical rope: Moses finds himself on the shore of the Red Sea with Pharaoh and his army pursuing; the people of Israel are led into the wilderness with no food or water; and even the multitudes along with the disciples find themselves following Christ to a remote area with only a few fish and a couple of loaves of bread to sustain them.    

If we take our Bible seriously, these are not uncommon situations.  More times than not Christ leads us to places where we are forced to ask: How do we survive now that we are here?  We then logically search all options and are left with the helpless answer: I have no idea.  When we come to the end of our logical rope, we have no other option but to look to Christ and simply trust what He says.

This is why the Word of God is so important.  In it Christ informs and instructs us through seemingly impossible situations.  He shows off that way.  We are too often confined by the limits of our own logic and reason.  Consequently, obedience becomes more difficult, and, in some cases not a "reasonable" option.

But when we listen to, and trust, the Word of the omniscient and omnipotent Lord, we finally find a Refuge where logic and reason are freed from the confines we place upon them. Christ alone has all the facts.  Therefore, our faith in Him compels and frees us to leave the limits of our own inductive processes. And when we trust Him in doing so we finally receive logical reasons to trust, love, hope, and obey.

Christianity is not about leaving reason for blind faith.  Quite the contrary, it is about being united, by faith, to the One who frees reason from the limits of the fallen human mind.  In Christ, we do not know everything; but, we boast only in the fact that we know the One who knows everything.  Faith in Christ therefore, is the only rational approach to life.  Having said all of this, we can conclude (and even quote:) that man cannot live on his logic alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God (Matt 4:4).