I Don't Care How You Feel!

This revelation, like many, should never have taken me so long.

Yet as I learn more about the restoration wrought for us in Christ, the redemption which he paid for, and the resurrection life which He has given us, the less time I spend caring about how I feel.

In fact, in does not matter one bit what our feelings may or may not be.

I cannot believe I spent the greater amount of my time, my day, my life all caught up in what I was feeling, when everything about who Jesus is and all that He has done and is doing, all of that matters more than anything else.

In greater revelation, I understand what Paul meant when he chastised the Corinthians:

"1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?" (1 Corinthians 3: 1-4)

We are not called to a carnal life, for we have received the promise of His Spirit, for those who believe on Him:

"21Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 22Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. (2 Corinthians 1: 22-23)

and also

"13In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory." (Ephesians 1: 13-14)

It is not about what our feelings indicate to us, but rather what our minds meditate on, or rather who our minds rest in:

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." (Isaiah 26: 3)

and also

"1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." (Romans 12: 1-2)

Now, before anyone despairs or gets frustrated, consider what Jesus has done for us:

"For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." (1 Corinthians 2: 16)

and also

"And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life." (1 John 5: 20)

Let us bear in mind that what is on our mind matters more than what we feel, and let us know that He bears us fully, cares and all (1 Peter 5: 6-7)