Our feelings are not our substance.
Feelings come and go, they are not reality often. When we operate from knowledge and commitment, we will feel good about that, but it will be a real change in our heart, greater than feelings.
Change most often comes when we have to face what we are and admit it. When we ignore the bad attitudes but do good works, that serves only to build pride and pretend to dissipate the wrong we do to others.
It is best to confess what we are, what we have been and ask the Lord to change us. Then our good works will mean something real.
When we see people rocking between the "sweet mean cycle" constantly, we are watching those who base all they do on how it makes them feel rather than on substance and commitment.
Proverbs 18:15
"An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge."
Hosea 4:6-7
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame."
The Hosea passage describes a people much like ours in this country and even around the world today.
Most holiday gatherings are for personal pleasure, a time of boasting and bragging about accomplishments and material wealth, forgetting the things of the Lord, that are just a "fly in the ointment" of holiday cheer.
Just call me Granny Grinch, the woman who places the fly in the ointment, without a hearer to hear or a listener to listen, I speak of things of which most people want no part.
Proverbs 15:14
"The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly."
Proverbs 8:10
"Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold,"
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