We can "feel" bad about having to do things that are good for us.
When psychology focuses on feelings, they are catering to the basest level of man kind.
When a dog is given a piece of meat laced with poison, they feel excited to get it, they enjoy it vigorously, only to end up dead from it's consumption.
Many things that make us feel temporarily good, are ultimately harmful in the long run. Notice how liberals camp regularly on feelings, demanding that everyone be allowed to "express themselves."
The foolishness of living on the plane of feelings is disastrous and deadly. We have feelings it is good to own what we feel, but they must be evaluated in terms of truth.
If the dog who ate the poison could have been able to rationally ignore his instinct, he would have seen that the person who gave him the meat was evil, he was a stranger who had been contending with the dog in the past. He would have been able to evaluate all the clues to be able to know that the meat might not be safe.
This is how we need to be when given a dose of doctrine in these modern times. We need to ask who is promoting it, what is their reputation and most of all, how does it measure up to the Word of God.
Did you know it is possible to "feel" nothing at all when we are in danger, because we don't know we are in danger, we have no feelings about it. However when we have discernment, we pass from feelings to promptings from the Holy Spirit that tell us to beware. Believe it or not, the sensing of danger often is without feelings, it's deeper than that.
Psychology tends to camp more on feelings that reality. Feelings are not reality, they are nothing more than fleshly responses to stimuli, I know this because I have cried at a very sad movie, when nothing was happening to me nor was anything happening to the actors in the movie, it was all contrived and yet it made me cry. At a scary movie I was fearful, at at happy movie I laughed.
I once heard it said that our brain cannot always discern between truth and fiction, it reacts to the stimuli of what is going into our eyes or our others senses.
Proverbs 4:23 "Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life."
Matthew 6:22 ""The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light."
I believe that we have so much media being infused into our being through television, radio and internet that our brain is lacking the ability to sort out truth from fiction, the reason so many believers have many ungodly ideas floating in their brains.
Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things."
Psychology wants us to be caught up in the morass of feelings, it affords them the ability to manipulate and control us.
Liberals hate it when we are strong thinkers, they have lost control over us when we can look beyond feelings to rational conclusions.
1 Corinthians 2:16 "For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ."
The moral of the story is this; don't allow anyone else to intimidate you into thinking in ways that are contrary to the Word of God. Also, do not allow anyone to manipulate you into dropping the wisdom God has given you to be accepted by the group, whatever group that happens to be.
Jeremiah 10:2 "Thus says the LORD, "Do not learn the way of the nations (pagans), And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens Although the nations are terrified by them;"
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