The Emotional Roller Coaster

I believe God gave us emotions and indicators and not decision makers. Let me explain. Faith pleases God and He rewards us for obedience. He knows how we feel and comforts us but doesn't change what His Word says. Sometimes we have to do things not because they feel right but because they are right. Our emotions many time have us consider things we shouldn't if they are in the driver's seat. Once back in Bible College somebody forced me to make a decision on the spot instead of letting me make it properly. It ended our endeavor together. They asked for what I felt in the moment instead of letting me make the right decision. It upset them but I asked them not to do that as I was handling a few other things I was responsible for that night and my mind was truly elsewhere. When we base our lives on how we feel totally we are not consistent. Everybody s riding the emotional roller coaster daily. When something happens and we are emotional effected it changes our outlook on things. It causes us not to always consider what may have happened, other people's situations, circumstances or that somebody may be having a bad day. It's in that moment we consider ourselves and determine what's real based on how we see it. Making a decision in that mindset may cost you more than you expected. Just as we shouldn't make emotional decision how you feel shouldn't change what God says about something. Following God will cost you things that people will not understand why you are doing something. Being obedient to God doesn't always feel right or seem like the right choice but it's necessary for your life and destiny. The emotional pull of losing what you know for what at the moment is a mystery is huge. It's in those time we learn to exercise our faith and trust God regardless of what we feel. There were things I've had to give up which weren't evil but not what i needed because of where I had to go. Your emotions can stop you from even fulfilling your destiny if not put in the proper place. Love is not an emotion. God is love He is not an emotion He is what love is truly make of. Love casts out all fear. Fear is an emotion. Fear will drive you to the wrong decision and "short circuit" your faith. So what helps us control this. The Word of God.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10: 17

What is faith?

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:1-3

And finally...

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 2 Corinthians 5:7

In Hebrews 11 this is how many walked into their destiny not knowing but trusting and making decisions the right way.