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Faith and Feelings
Hebrews 11:1
Biblical faith is not a blind faith, but is one based on evidence.
Some would build their faith, not on the word of God, but on their feelings of what is right.
Instead of being created by God in His image, they try to create God in their own image.
“I believe in a God who would do this or who would not do that.”
The faith that is constructed based on feelings of who God is or who you would like God to be, is not necessarily based on Biblical evidence.
It is rather, based on your feelings.
Therefore, if you rely on your constructed faith to save you, you are placing your faith in your faith.
The faith is not placed in God and His word, but is rather based on your faith which you have constructed, based on your feelings.
We may have feelings, but if those feelings are based in the world and not in God’s word, they are not good feelings to build your life on.
Galatians 5:24
Romans 1:26-27
People were following their feelings, but God called their feelings “vile” and an “error.”
Their feelings were the wrong feelings to follow.
The Conscience
The conscience is part of our brain that makes us feel bad if something is wrong and feel good when things are okay.
The conscience, however, can be trained, depending on your actions.
Do bad actions long enough and your conscience may not bother you anymore.
1 Timothy 4:1-3
Acts 22:3-8
Saul persecuted Jesus and thought he was doing right.
But Jesus clearly told him he was doing wrong.
Saul’s feelings were that Christians should be imprisoned and Jesus should be persecuted.
But those feelings were wrong.
Why?
They were not based on the truth of God’s word.
Saul may have been sincere, but if he was, he was sincerely wrong.
Once Saul realized He was wrong, he repented and preached Christ.
Acts 9:20
Why did Saul’s conscience not bother him about persecuting God?
Because he thought he was doing right.
Your conscience does not bother you when you think you are doing right, even when you are doing wrong.
Notice what Paul would write later about his conscience.
2 Timothy 1:3
He was doing the exact opposite of what he was doing before and yet now his conscience was fine.
We Answer to God
The fact is that our feelings and our words will not be what judges us in the last day.
Instead, we will stand before God and answer to what Jesus has said.
John 12:48
Having feelings is fine and having a conscience is fine but they both need to be centered upon and founded upon what God says.
God is the Creator of the world and is the source of goodness.
When something is good, it is because God approves of it.
When something is evil, it is because God does not approve of it.
By conforming our lives to what God wants, we can have a good conscience, too.
1 Peter 3:16
Notice that God states you can have a good conscience because of your “good conversation in Christ.”
The conscience we are supposed to have and the feelings we are to have are to be good, but they are to be good because we are doing what God wants.
1 Peter 3:21
If we appeal to God for a good conscience, is He not the judge?
If He is the judge, then why would I build my life on my own feelings?
If I only need to please myself, then why would I appeal to God for a good conscience?
If I appeal to God for a good conscience, then would it not make sense that I have done what pleases Him?
If you appeal to a referee in a game, the referee may agree with you if your appeal is based on the rule book.
If you appeal to God, our judge, should not that appeal be based on His rule book, the Bible?
Conclusion
Our faith should be based on the Word of God, the Bible, not our own feelings and our own faith.
Romans 10:17
Our conscience can help tell us when we are doing wrong, but only if we train it properly, again using God’s Word, the Bible.
In the end, we will answer to God for what we have done, not according to my feelings and faith, but according to His words.
Which are you following today, a faith constructed on your feelings, or God’s Word?
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