You are More than Your FEELINGS!

 

We have made our feelings God.

Morality is now at the whims of fickle human emotions. Something which, I am sure, has never been affected by late night pizza or burrito binging. Our desperate need to be known and loved is masked and hidden beneath the surface by drama, insecurity and neediness. We are not fulfilled or complete in ourselves.

This emotion over logic mania has taken control of the morality of our culture. Feelings have become more valid than reason and fact. YOLO has become the rallying cry to express yourself and behave however you feel like. Urges and unrestrained desires have been let loose at the expense of common sense. Is this a good thing? Have your feelings ever changed? Can our feelings be a good guide for our morality? Why are slander and name-calling an accepted practice used against those who disagree with today’s permissive society? “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser,” Socrates.

If we were to look back through history, would we find this to be a good practice? Are we looking into the future to see what the logical conclusions could lead to? Is what we feel, who we are? We have lost or not yet known what our true identity is. Feelings are not helpful in discovering who we are. My feelings often lie. How about yours? What has led to this moral vacuum of defining ourselves by our urges and emotions?

A massive part of what created the problem is that the church has not demonstrated the love of God to a lost, hurting, broken world; instead, we have been mean and judgmental. We have become the enemy of the world that God so loved He sent His Son for.

I apologize for how I have wounded you. I apologize for how the church has wounded you.

The real enemies of humanity are the demons [not ghosts] who accuse, shame and condemn all of us into a life of fear, hopelessness, self-condemnation and judgment of ourselves and others. They HATE us; all of us. They spew vomit of judgment and hate on all humanity. We need to recognize their voices, tone and messages and stop listening to and obeying those negative messages. Often, they use our own voice to trick us into thinking that these awful thoughts originate with us. That is a clue. If it is a thought that disgusts you, then it is not yours. So flush it and move on.

Because of all this condemnation a huge gap has been created in all of our lives that has left many feeling isolated and alone and unworthy of anyone liking us, let alone loving us. Our feelings, because of all these negative messages have led us to believe we are garbage.

Therefore, we believe crazy ideologies and live like we are mindless junk searching endlessly to fill this gigantic void of unworthiness that is a torrent of sewage flooding through our wounded souls. What a disgusting, sad, devastating and graphic picture that is.

Christians have struggled with all these same issues on a massive scale. I know I did. The first 28 years of my Christian life were an emotional roller coaster because I did not know if God really could accept me or like me. I believed His love was unobtainable to me because of the mess in my mind. I am an example of a follower of Jesus who wanted to do, think and be good but was under the spell and lies of the demons. Unfortunately, I was a typical example of the Christian crowd who was just as screwed up after accepting Jesus as we were when we did not know Him.

Many leaders in the USA churches have so much external pressure to keep up the appearance of holiness that we all miss out on a real and vulnerable relationship with God and people. Instead of focusing on what we are not, we need to focus on Who IS. God is good, holy, pure, gentle, loving, kind, gracious, joy-filled, patient, etc. The Holy Spirit is building us up in all these areas to be like God. God is greater than the enemy who does not want us to grow up in these areas. God is also greater than our church organizational and leadership structures that inhibit truthful relationships with Him. Stop being afraid of God’s holiness and realize He loves you. Jesus would not have died for you if He was not gracious and loving toward who you were, are and are becoming. [That was a good word right there.]

God desires that we walk in a relationship of love with Him and people. We need to stop walking in fear of punishment. God is not ashamed of His children! Wake up! If Jesus is Lord of your life, He LOVES you. Get this.

Can we start looking at what God does want to do in and through us and stop looking at what we have done wrong? God does not focus on what we are not. He focuses on who we will become.

It is not about our feelings. It is about truth. And for all people, not just Christians, truth is a person. Jesus is the Truth. God IS love. They are not feelings. They are God. They are awesome, amazing and wonderful and worthy of worship and adoration. The Holy Spirit is here to teach us to love, hear and obey this fabulous, too fantastic to imagine tri-une God.

You are the answer to Jesus’ prayer in John 17. You’re identity and morality are not about how you feel. It’s about Who you believe and what He thinks about you. You are loved by the only One whose opinion matters. Truth [Jesus] needs to rule feelings so new thoughts and feelings can replace the garbage with the truth. All of our thinking, feelings and morality are drastically altered when we know God is real, loves us and will continually pursue a fantastic relationship with us. That is what set me free. Because of this, I am free to love everyone; even, those who disagree with me or live in a way that I may not like.

I pray that you get free in Jesus knowing He loves you and is pursuing a grand relationship with you. He likes you. He loves you. He came to earth and went to the cross for us. He cares about every aspect of our lives and our identity. He cares so much that He will transform our mind and emotions once we surrender to His love. His love is so good and gentle that it washes away all shame and condemnation. It washes away the desire to continue the unending pursuit to make ourselves happy. Only peace and joy come from knowing Jesus. That is eternal and unchanging.

Do you want to know Jesus? Do you want freedom, rest and joy in your soul? Jesus is the answer to what life is for and about. Jesus is the meaning of life. He is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes into a relationship with God, the Father, except through Jesus [John 14:6]. Let’s walk together to God. Let me help you find peace, joy and meaning. Stop wrestling with your emotions and rest in God.

       

      I highly recommend any video by Dan Mohler to help you discover the truth about God and how He views you:

https://youtu.be/dXaUc0PiD-Q

"Jesus died, not just because we are sinners, but to redeem our value and restore the truth back inside of us," Dan Mohler.