Following Feelings
Good Morning,
Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
We are creating a nation that lives on feelings and denies the obvious facts.
• Feelings turn folks into bank robbers.
• Feelings turn people into murderers.
• Feelings make people overeat.
• Feelings make people slap stupid people.
• Feelings cause adultery.
• Feelings make kids cheat on tests at school.
Should we go on?
Proverbs 28:26 “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.”
I do not care how you feel. Truth is truth, and if you enter my house because you feel like taking something that is mine, you will do so at great peril.
People may feel as though they deserve more pay or should get government support, but the reality is one’s pay is determined by how the employer values him. If you do not produce any profits, then you deserve no pay.
My little granddaughter came into the room one day saying that she was not Kimmy, but that she was a princess. That is great! Pretend and enjoy your imaginary world, you are a child, but when you are done playing, you still are Kimmy. Likewise, your gender is determined by biological fact, not by feeling. You may feel like a giraffe, but you are still a human. Your child may want to be a puppy, but he is still a little boy or girl – wise people live by facts.
How many times have your children not felt like getting up to go to school, yet you, the good parent, made them get up and go anyway. How often have you not felt like going to work? Following your feelings is a sure recipe for ruin.
If we allow our feelings to be in control, they will destroy our life, marriage, and family; and feelings can surely destroy the nation as well.
Ask anyone in boot camp if they feel like continuing. Ask any athlete during training if they feel like getting in shape. Of course they feel like quitting, but their desire to succeed causes their character to overrule their feelings, thus providing a chance for success.
I can feel like speeding or parking in a red zone, but in both situations, I will be told that my feelings do not justify my behavior.
If I go to the bank and say I want to withdraw a million dollars, and they say I have no money, can I simply say that I feel like I do?
Do you see how stupid this culture is?
God says to control yourself and not allow your feelings to control you.
1 Corinthians 9:27 “But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
Pastor