Feelings are just that.

     As I held my daughters beautiful face between my palms, I said, " My job is to make sure I teach you how to be a grown up that has a beautiful heart, and if that means you are mad at me now, then I am ok with that. Your feelings will pass but my job doesn't change."
     Then I remember God wants to do the same with me. So I pose the question in my heart, "How often do I let my feelings get in the way of when He is teaching me a valuable life lesson?" *Gulp* All the time! This brings me to faith. Believing in the unseen. " Walking out on a limb" for God. It seems preposterous that our feelings would get in the way but they do!! It is where we allow ourselves to be swayed by the circumstances of our present.
     Faith requires that we set aside our feelings and replace it with God's word inscribed on our hearts. Feelings are like water in that they conform to the boundaries set around them. To be honest, the revelation that I don't have to let my feelings be my source of my motivation is real relief! Faith in God's perfect love and plan for our lives is  real and concrete. "Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so".
    My challenge in the coming days is to commit more scripture to memory pertaining to Gods plan for me, for His love for me, His promises to me as His child. I heard Beth Moore on the radio and she was saying how important it is for our mental strength against attacks of the enemy to have memorized scripture for combat.
    Take your feelings and tell them what the Lord says you are. You FEEL weary and faint?  Isaiah 40:31b " They will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Truth that can be used to free yourself from the trappings of feelings. FEEL afraid and helpless? Isaish 41:13 "For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear, I will help you." FEELINGS are really just that, and they too shall pass.
   So find scriptures to build your faith and then tuck them into your heart for safe keeping. One day feelings will try and perauade you that you are something other than what God says and you'll be free to bypass them and learn the lesson instead.
   In those times it is when I am exchanging my "arsenal" for His. When he turns my scars to beauty marks and holds my hand as I become a woman of faith instead of feelings.
Love,
I am of the Resurrection