reasoning

"You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and you. shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him." (Deuteronomy 13:4)

When we read a command in the Bible, whether we understand it or not, we ought to obey it. The Bible is not first and foremost a book to be explained, it is a book to be believed and obeyed.

So many times we want to tell God how He ought to do things. I can imagine those early apostles when they first met Paul persecuting believers. 

Those well-meaning Christians could have been praying for God to strike Paul dead - But what did God do? He struck him alive! And aren't you glad He did?

Don't substitute human reasoning for obedience. 

God says, "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9).

-Adrian Rogers