Believe Your Way into Your Feelings

What we believe must control how we feel.

If you allow how you feel to control what you believe, then your beliefs will always be changing.

Don’t feel your way to your beliefs; believe your way to your feelings.

Here Is A Real-Life Example:

Life is hard and you experience a lot of pain. Bad things happen to you and to people around you. A lot of days you do not feel like God is good or that God loves you.

Is God good? Does God love you?

Here Is An Answer Controlled by How You Feel:

It does not feel like God is good and you do not feel like God loves you; therefore, God is not good and God does not love you.

Tomorrow, you may feel differently, but that is how you feel today.

Here Is An Answer Controlled by What You Believe:

1. God has told you through the Bible that He is good.

   • Psalm 100 verse 5 says, "For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations." (NKJV)

2. God has told you through the Bible that He will always love you and will never forsake you.

   • Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5 says, "... For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (NKJV)

3. God has demonstrated His love for you by sending His Son Jesus to die on the cross in your place.

   • You deserve never-ending punishment for how you have disobeyed God, but God offers you complete forgiveness and never-ending life if you turn away from your evil thoughts and actions and truly believe in Jesus as the one who is in control of your life and helps you to think and do good things.

   • Romans chapter 5 verse 8 says, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (NKJV)

Actions speak louder than words. Jesus loves you so much that He died for you. What can say, “I love you!” more than that?

So, next time life is hard and bad things to happen to you; don’t let how you feel about God control what believe about God. Instead let what you believe about God control how you feel about Him and about your life in general.

"Feelings do not drive our faith. The fact of Jesus’ death and resurrection drives our faith. That means that feelings are the fruit of faith, not the source of it." – Pastor J.D. Greear