Do your feelings ever collide with your faith?
Mine do. Often.
But God keeps reminding me that I am to worship in spirit and truth, not feelings. Here's an article from the newsletter I send out to younger girls every week:
Sometimes it seems I'm going through the motions, reading my Bible, praying, memorizing, and meditating, yet something is wrong. It just doesn't FEEL right. I don't feel closer to God, or more spiritual, or even like I got a rhema from God today.
So, what do I do when I don't feel devoted to God? Just keep obeying. Keep trusting. Keep reading, praying, and memorizing. Keep God first. In fact, Jesus said "If ye love Me, keep My commandments." John 14:15 And again,"He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to Him." John 14:21
Mine do. Often.
But God keeps reminding me that I am to worship in spirit and truth, not feelings. Here's an article from the newsletter I send out to younger girls every week:
It has been a joy to spend a summer with Jesus!
Hasn't it?
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| Time Alone with God |
I wanted to grow in Christ this summer. I wanted to love Him more than before- be passionately all for Him. But instead, I feel like a failure as a Christian.
Have you ever felt like that?
Fortunately for us, God doesn't base His love for us on feelings.
"The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." Jeremiah 31:3
God keeps reminding me that I am a spirit, in a body, with a soul. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 says I have three parts. They that worship God worship Him in spirit and truth (John 4:24) not necessarily with our soul (which is mind, will, and emotions). Perhaps this is why I must constantly renew my mind and give my soul to the Lord. (Psalm 51:10, 86:4)
Faith is not determined by feelings. It is determined by trust in an unseen object (Hebrews 11:1). Once I am saved, I am always saved. I can't do anything to lose it- even if I don't "feel" saved.
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| Special times with Jesus!!! |
The one that obeys is the one that loves, not the one that "feels" sincerely loving. And the benefit? He "will manifest" Himself to me! He blesses those who stay in His way. "Feeling" like God is close is definitely a benefit, but not a requirement to following God.
Be encouraged! Jesus loves you!
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