Too many people today are basing their belief system on experiences rather than truth.
We cannot base anything we believe on our experiences. Feelings and experiences lie to us, they build up our emotions and cause us to have myopic vision.
We need to stand back, take a better look at things and compare them with the Words of God.
If the Words of God do not match up with the experience, then we throw away the experience and go with the Words!
Psalm 107:20 "He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions."
John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Ephesians 5:26 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Why would I trust my fleshly feelings when I could seek the Word (Christ) Who lives in me for the answers to all things. The more we do this, the greater discernment we have. We cannot develop discernment when we are starved of God's Word.
God will give wisdom to all who want it, but He will leave us to flounder and fail if we refuse to ask Him.
James 1:5 "But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him."
James 4:3 "You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures."
Do you want to be able to discern good from bad, righteousness from unrighteousness? If you do you must read the Word of God, ask the Lord to open your eyes to anything you believe that might not be truth and begin to teach you afresh. God will never deny someone who really wants to know.
