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We cant allow our feelings to control us!...I dont know how youre feeling today. Maybe not the best. Tired? Stressed? Hurt or angry? Perhaps bored or lonely. Or sad or forgotten. It could be one more of many different emotions, each of which knows its well-worn way to your heart. And every time this feeling shows up, it wants to dictate how you orient your day, how you react to other people & situations that arise, how you perceive Gods nature & character. Everything. But heres one thing I do know. If left to roam wild, those feelings & emotions will likely lead you to think & do things that are inconsistent with Gods plan for your life. They will persuade you to believe things about Him, about yourself, & about your circumstances that run counter to the truth. If you let them, those emotions will seek to distort your view of God & keep you from seeing Him as the faithful, loving, actively engaged God He reveals Himself to be. Thats why feelings, as fickle & unreliable as they are, cannot be allowed just to come in & take over. They must be disciplined, managed, & controlled. And this job calls for Scripture. Lots & lots of Scripture. Not limited exposure through once-a-week-or-less church services but a daily, lifelong commitment to immerse yourself in its truth. In fact, YOUR SOUL NEEDS MEGADOSES OF THE WORD - much as you pump vitamin C & echinacea into your system when you have a cold - to help build up your spiritual immunities & reserves, blocking the chances for wrong ways of thinking to infect your heart & put you out of commission. So stop nursing those feelings. Get your nose in the Bible, & see things for how they really are. See Him for who He really is. Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:14:11 +0000

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