Me: How is your day at the beach?
Prodigal: It’s hotter than a boilin’ pot of neck bones.
Me: Well don’t stay out there to long then.
Prodigal: I wont.
Today we will share from Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl by Lysa Terkeurst
The problem is, we have been trained to process life based on the way we feel. We think we must feel love for love to exist. We think we must feel wanted to truly be chosen. We think we must feel God’s presence for Him to really be close. But God never meant for us to feel our way to Him.
God wants us to stand on the absolute truth that He is with us no matter our feelings may betray that reality. When I process life through my feelings, I am left deceived and disillusioned. When I process life through God’s truth, I am divinely comforted by His love and made confident in His calling on my life.
I used to say I didn’t feel close to God, and therefore, God must not be close to me. Now, I say: God is close, and if I choose to be close back, He’ll rearrange by feelings. In other words, I need to make an intentional choice with my head, knowing that my heart will eventually follow.
This is not a day where you run off in the sunset with a loved one and the birds are singing songs in the background. This is a day where you are in the wilderness of a blizzard with no sun shinning but only clouds. You feel alone and without the warmth of love. Remember though that doesn’t mean you are not loved.
Psalm 105:7-8
He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
