You’re not from around here, are you?
We know from everything we’ve been told that we can’t trust our feelings. Living according to our emotions would put us on a roller coaster, getting us nowhere and making us motion sick.
But I like where Neil’s going with this today… Emotions are a window into what we are thinking, since what we feel is determined by what we think. (Search your feelings; you know it to be true…)
And it is truly hard some days to tell what’s the voice of God convicting us of sin, and what’s the voice of the enemy condemning us. Part of what makes it hard is that we really do deserve condemnation! But, and this makes all the difference, Christ took that condemnation for us. Neil says: Judicially (legally), you are no longer guilty.
The truth of who we now are is found in God’s word. Cut and paste that middle paragraph somewhere you’ll be able to find it when you need it.
Simply put, if we do something wrong, we can sort things out this way… If the thoughts we’re having make us feel like God can’t love us, or make us want to pull away from Him, they aren’t right. That’s the enemy. If the thoughts are making us realize that we need to come back to God and make things right, that’s the Holy Spirit.
Eventually, we’ll get to know these things well enough that when a condemning thought comes through, we’ll look at it and say, You’re not from around here, are you?
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