| FeelingsThe Word of God is unchanging. In contrast, we are expected to change our steps and alter our lifestyle in response to the Word. This is not an act of religious ritual, but a response of faith in a God who exists, s Son who redeems, and a Spirit who teaches.Feelings that we may have cannot change the meaning of the Word. Scripture is unyielding before our moods, whims, torrents of emotion, opinions, or our convenience.While the Word of God is settled in heaven, our moods are anything but that. Our situations, emotions, peaks and valleys, and (dare I say) traditional sacred cows can be our main hindrance in regards to the Word and obedience to God.FeelingsCan make you strike a rock you should have spoken to.Sleep with a handmaiden instead of your wife of covenant.Get on board a ship going an opposite direction, rather than to Ninevah.Why do these instances creep up in our lives? Because we do what we feel rather than what we profess to be truth.The Word can and should shape how we feel.But how we feel, must never shape the Word or our obedience to God |