Hey
Friend…
If God said
something to or about you,
And your
feelings said something opposite,
Which
message would you believe to be true?
To which
voice would you give ...the most merit?
Feelings,
like waves of a wind driven sea,
Their
messages whispered in cultural inklings.
The Word of
God is changeless, trustworthy,
Especially
when with our faith it is mingling.
Feelings
motivate and fuel the carnal world,
With
messages easily manipulated.
Enemies of
our soul their message unfurl.
Their
objective is our lives …emasculated.
God’s code
message is written in His spiritual Book,
Full of
history and poetry through which He’ll speak.
Written in
indelible ink, pick it up. Take a look!
If read
with an open heart, your interest it will pique.
Voices,
voices, those within and without,
Motivating
thoughts, both fleeting and deep.
Which ones
to heed? That’s what life is about.
What if
into the future we could peep??
God lives
in the realm of eternity,
Where the
past, present and future are ...NOW.
Into our
time-bound actuality,
He ‘calls’
things to ‘Be! Come!’ By faith is how.
Invitations
to envision in advance what He says;
To learn
His voice, and in it put full-hearted trust,
And then to
align our thoughts and words to what He portrays.
‘Talk and
act like Me.
That’s what
He desires.
‘Have My
kind of faith.’
That’s what
He inspires. *
But what to
do when what He says does not align,
With all
that we see, feel and think?
What if it
contradicts and also undermines,
Past
lessons to which we are linked??
He created
feelings, without any doubt,
And of our
thoughts and past, He is aware.
He knows
our feelings can drain His Word of clout.
So don’t
think, ‘He’s really being unfair!’
To grow up
our faith in Him and His Word,
He designs
tests to strengthen places where we’re weak.
He has
unique ways to make His voice heard,
And when
we’re not clear, Him diligently to seek.
To act like
and say what He says, we resist!
We trust
other voices much more than His.
To do what
these voices say, we then insist!
Thus we
stumble, and fail His blessings quiz.
If this
poem upon your feelings may trudge,
It’s not
your feelings’ toes I seek to step upon.
Let’s allow
God’s Word be the final judge.
Upon you
sooner or later, may His Truth dawn.
Ponder
this...
By your
example, in others which do you inspire:
Trusting in
being led by feelings and other voices,
Ahhhh...
Voices
within and without, confusing our life choices…
All across
our world today …we’re stewing in our feelings.
Designated
blessings delayed or altogether lost.
God would
rather us to be …just resting in His testing,
So we can avoid such heavy, unnecessary costs.
So we can avoid such heavy, unnecessary costs.
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* See: Mark 11:23-26
