Twenty-four days of What God Wants You to Know have come and gone. Has your heart been moved? I hope so. I know I needed to wade knee deep into these truths. Each one has been like a old friend I love hanging out with at Starbucks.
But what about the days, when, it doesn’t feel true? You read. You memorize. You write it down. But your feelings have left the building. I have so been there lately, have you?
It happens. And with only 6 days left in this series, God wants you to know that even when it doesn’t feel true, it is. He made you. He knows you are a woman with complicated feelings. He knows who you are. But, truth is not standing around waiting for you or I to feel good about it. Truth just is. And sometimes, we have to take God at His Word and trust that at some point, the feelings will follow.
Now faith means putting our full confidence in the things we hope for, it means being certain of things we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1
*J.B. Phillips Translation
Feelings are indicators, but they do not have to be dictators. What is really going on in your heart? Do you need to step off the crazy for a while? {Umm, yes!} Do you need a good friend to work through your feelings with you? {Amen!}
Better yet, we have the living breathing Word of God to turn to. His Word is going to live forever. You can put your full confidence in it. You can be certain it will not bend or break. Even when you feel like you are, It will not.
The grass withers and the flowers fade,
but the word of our God stands forever.Isaiah 40:8 (New Living Translation)
{For the first 24 days of this series, you can click the button above.}
*One of my favorites, written in every day language. I first heard of it through Chuck Swindoll, and been looking for it for years. I was so excited to find it online at Bible Gateway!
Amen! I talk alot about feelings when I speak with women’s groups. I often say “they are real but not reliable.” And I completely agree, they do eventually follow our will to obey and believe. Thanks for this word, sweet friend. CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU IN TWO DAYS!
🙂 can’t wait!
Good point. Sometimes I’ll feel guilty because I think I should be feeling something in my relationship with God that I’m not. Working through the complicated feelings can be messy and the fact that God and His Word are unshakeable continues to amaze me every time I come up against the realization.
yes!!! just wrote about this recently in regards to the 4th boy disappointment…I knew truth but my heart did not feel it yet. Thank you for helping me know that this is normal and to lean on “hope” and faith even when i don’t feel the truth. see you in a couple days!!!
Love this quote:
Feelings are indicators, but they do not have to be dictators.
Thank you for a quality 31 day series!
So good. My feelings are up and down, and some days all over the place. I am so thankful that the way I feel does not dictate who I truly am in Christ and how He feels about me!
I love that quote you just made,”Feelings may be indicators but they don’t have to be dictators.” Now that’s good and so true.
Stacey, I had a hard time deciding which story to post at the Gypsy Mama this morning and I noticed that I would be behind your link if I would just hurry up and decide. It took me forever and I still managed to be after yours and I was thrilled. Because finding you has been one of the gifts I count for 2011. I had breakfast with a friend here in Phoenix this morning and I echoed the sentiments in this post throughout our conversation. So true how feeling are indicators, not dictators. A hard lesson learned over many years of practice! Blessings to you for a Happy New Year my friend!
Shelly what a sweet thing to say! I am honored! This post is near and dear to my heart because this year has had so many moments when my heart and head were not lined up. I needed to remind myself of this truth. I’m so glad that Jesus is patient with me!
Have a blessed new year!
Some days it feels like this is true for everyone but me! Thank for the reminder that that isn’t true!
I grew up thinking that I didn’t have any feelings because I was not allowed to be sad or angry or even happy. (if my sisters and I were to loud giggling, we got into trouble.) I am learning that I am a VERY emotional person and I love your statement: Feelings are indicators, but they do not have to be dictators. I need this to live by!
Thanks for sharing.
Sometimes I have to remember His truths and stand on them and believe in them in spite of myself and what I feel…thank you for the sweet reminder of HIS truth in spite of my reality.