It is a very common thing for men to reason with God. Though He does not stand personally and visibly before them and talk with them, they have His spoken word, to which many feel free to make objections, or excuse themselves from performing its requirements. It is just the same as if they stood face to face with the Creator and presumed to enter into an argument with Him.
This is not the kind of reasoning that the Lord desires. He has said, "Come now, and let us reason together," (Isaiah 1:18) but He does not ask us to tell Him anything that He does not know, or attempt to prove Him to be in the wrong. To do that would be to unseat Him from His throne. But He says, "Put me in remembrance, let us plead together." (Isaiah 43:26)
He wishes men to remind Him of His promises; not because He has forgotten them, but because He longs for an opportunity to fulfill them. He pleads with men to comply with the conditions upon which His promises are made, in order that by fulfilling them He may demonstrate to men His power and love toward them.
If they will do this, He will remember instantly the things that He has sworn to perform. He holds out to them the greatest of inducements by saying, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow: and though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isaiah 1:18)
To reason properly with the Lord is simply to give Him an opportunity of doing for us this wonderful work. The result will be most convincing, as regards all the points that can possibly be at issue.--Present Truth, October 4, 1894--Isaiah 1:18
E.J. Waggoner