God constantly invites us to return to His presence and allow Him to fix what’s wrong in our lives.

In Isaiah 1:18, He invites us to “Come let us reason together.” Reasoning with God means allowing Him to highlight, confront, correct, and cleanse us from the sin in our lives, thus, the verse goes on to say, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.”

Being confronted with your sins and having them corrected doesn’t sound like a pleasant experience. To be honest, it’s something that our flesh (our human nature) dreads. This is why we find it so hard to go to church on Sunday. This is why we avoid preachers, evangelists, and many times, why we decline to go to counseling or therapy.

We don’t want to confront our sin, our flaws, our bad decisions. We want to simply ignore them and hope things get better. However, the best way to exacerbate a problem is to pretend it doesn’t exist. The best way to solve a problem is to confront it head on. Admittedly, that’s a scary and unpleasant task, but healing requires it.

And, God invites us to reason with Him so He can do that work for us.

This process is demonstrated in action in Isaiah 6, and we see God extend this same invitation to King Ahaz in Isaiah 7 when He invites Ahaz to “ask a sign of the Lord.”

At Life Point Baptist Church, we are not here to cause you to feel shame, or to berate you or intensify the pain your sin has brought you. We do want to introduce you to our Lord so He can heal you. Services start at 11 am on Sunday mornings. We’d love to meet you.