In a recent blog, I wrote about the casual attitude Christians sometimes have about their faith. In this particular blog, I would like to share something that fosters such an attitude. There is a prevailing way of thinking that says “feelings” are our ultimate authority So, if that is true where does that leave God? Because as any Christian knows, God guides us to do something sometimes that is uncomfortable. But in the end it turns out to bring more blessings into our lives than we could imagine. Let me give you an example.

When I found out that I was pregnant with my 4th child, I was not ‘feeling’ happy about it. I thought my family was complete with 3 daughters. My husband was in seminary and our lives were in preparation of a serious lifetime commitment to ministry. My youngest daughter was 4, and I was 34. I wasn’t ready to start all over with the baby thing.

But as a Christian, I knew of the preciousness of life. Therefore, abortion was never, and I mean never considered. Instead, I trusted God to work this out for my good and the good of our family and His glory. . Because that’s what His word says to do when faced with difficult situations. And guess what, eventually, my feelings changed as a result of trusting God and being guided by His word. And the blessing of our 4th child, a son? Well, there just isn’t enough words in the English language to describe the joy and the fulfillment I’ve known since giving birth to him.

If we are casual regarding spending time in God’s word, we will lack the wisdom and understanding we could access there. So when this sounding good attitude about ‘letting your feelings guide you’ comes around it sort of makes sense. As a result, the authority of God’s word is subtly replaced, and our feelings rise in influence. Consequently, we are driven to find solutions to our problems that will make us feel better. And when these solutions contradict God’s word, we are often unaware.

For Scriptures tells us it is the problems we have in life, when taken to God, that makes us over comers and victorious in life. But when we allow our feelings to dictate our actions, we play right into the hands of the enemy. All the blessings of having victory over trials and suffering are denied us. Consider the Truths of the following Words:

2 Corinthians 10 :3-4, NLT, We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. (These weapons are the Truths within Scripture)

Col. 2:8 NLT, “Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.”