Monday, April 29, 2019

Feelings Cannot Be Trusted

If we can just get past our feelings to rational thought we can make it out the other side stronger. Its one of the challenges of this life. Something I like to tell myself and others when we face very difficult trials. It seems to help to know this.

Some of our difficulties are relationships with people.

James 1:5-7 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.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, 8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."

Those who become angry in a disagreement are most often those who are not sure of their own beliefs. When we have merely taken on the beliefs of others, not based on the Bible, then there is agitation when they are questioned or challenged in even the mildest terms.

The strongest place to be in our walk is where feelings are irrelevant, and rational thinking takes over. We never need to go with our feelings, we can ignore them and focus on the rational truth that we know.

Feelings will trip us up every time. They will tell us things are wrong when they are right and they will tell us things are good when they are bad. They are by their very nature based on stimuli rather than thinking and they can often be automatic without any stimuli, even hormonal. I am convinced that devils foster feelings in people to cause trouble in relationships.

Feelings are fleshly and unreliable. Rational thinking is better when we are focused on Christ, we think with His mind instead of our own.

1 Corinthians 2:15-16 "…15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16“ For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ."





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