Dear Ones,
Hope you wake to a wonderful day. I plan to go to our Women’s Bible Study this morning and then Al and I are going to friends for the afternoon of fellowship.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
In our culture today we are encouraged to act on our feelings. If it feels good, do it? But is that God’s way? I think not. In fact, it is a symptom of immaturity just like a little child who wants his own way and to only do what he feels like doing, and not what is asked of him. If we lived like by our emotions and just what we felt like, we would not only mess up our own life, but those around us as well. I remember years ago a gal in Ladies’ class that told me she lived according to her feelings, and she would wait until she “felt led” to clean or make supper, go to the store etc. I can’t imagine what her family endured until she was willing to “grow up”.

The Lord asks us to do many things that we may not want to do, but if we want to walk by the Spirit, it means surrendering to what He shows us to do. It doesn’t depend our feelings and emotions but rather on we know from scripture and what the Spirit prompts us to do. We don’t need to ask ourselves if we “feel” like doing something that God asks us for it is more a matter of choosing to do what we know God asks of us. I was reading Joyce Meyer’s devotional and she said it well, that if our feelings vote ‘yes’ but our hearts say ‘no’ we need to tell our feelings they don’t get to vote! Feelings are immature and most often don’t vote what is best for us. Many times, the enemy toys with our feelings to get us to do things we know are not what God says. We can’t trust our feelings so let us not let them vote! How many of us reap disappointing consequences when we lead with our emotions and not by the spirit. Our feelings may say that what our neighbor said to us was uncalled for, so l will just tell him what I really think and let him have it! Or it can even be that our emotions tell us to keep working when we need to quit, rest, and not neglect our family. Feelings are not reliable so let us obey the Lord even when we don’t feel like it, and I find our right feelings usually catch up. Let us choose to obey!

It says in Gal.5:16, “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desire of the flesh.” May we not let our emotions dictate our faith but walk in obedience.

Challenge for today: Obey even when you don’t feel like it!
Blessings on your day and prayers and love, Judy