Faith is not an emotion. It is based upon fact. Having faith from the center of truth causes an emotion of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, and self-control. It’s not the opposite. It could not be, for our emotions are subjected to many variables, like people, time, temperature, atmosphere or circumstance.
Whereas when we trust what is true about God as fact, we have the strength to weather the negative emotions and enjoy the positive ones.
Facts that mankind has yet to disprove:
- God is the creator
- God performed miracles beyond our understanding
- God loves us and is always with us
- God is omnipresent
- The Trinity is real
- Jesus is the Son of God
- We will have eternal life with God
- Jesus’ ways are always 100 percent the right choices
Lord, we believe everything about You. We need to turn to You and rely on truth for our emotions carry us away from You. It causes us to perceive You as if You are not present in our lives until we beckon for You.
When we get to the crossroads of faith and emotion, we feel the incredible battle between desiring to take hold of what we know to be true. We fight against doubt, which leaves us no comfort and it fuels Satan’s emotion called condemnation.
In that exact moment, for us to get peace, we have to break through our desires for our emotion to be dealt with and take a step towards truth. As we take each step, our emotion of doubt and condemnation begins to be replaced with peace, comfort, and love for Christ.
We need to remember, recite, and write the truths of God on our hearts. Then our emotions will not fail us!
Just a Thought…
