God is Greater than Our Feelings...

I always tell people, “Feelings are real, but they’re often over-rated”. Now I know where it came from. We need to go with what we know to be true and rely less on our feelings. Think about this: our feelings change over time, sometimes even minute by minute. When you base your significance on something that is transient, and not on something that stands the rest of time (God’s Word), you’ll spend many a moment chasing what doesn’t last. You’ll base your life and decision-making on things that might not matter in the next 5 minutes. You’ll be living your life (as the Bible calls in) on “sinking sand”. Feelings are often wrong. Have you ever based your decision on your feelings and been wrong? Have you ever based your feelings on a person, only to find out later that you were wrong? And most importantly, you’ll be living your life not based on truth. The perfect example of this is love. Love is not a feeling. It’s a volitional choice we make make every day to put aside ourselves and serve others. And it comes straight from its only source, God. If it were a feeling, what would we have to live for when that feeling dies. True love is extending grace and forgiveness to someone even when you’re not “feeling it”. It’s a selfless act. It’s a shame that some people see it that way. “FEELINGS ARE REAL, BUT THEY’RE OFTEN OVERRATED”. God is greater than our feelings.

20 Even if we feel guilty, God is greater than our feelings, and He knows everything. 1 John 3:20