Are you basing what you believe on how you feel? Or do you choose to believe, regardless of how you feel?

Do you really believe you’re not loved because you don’t feel loved? Or do you choose to believe you are loved because He said so?

Do you really believe you’re worthless because you feel worthless? Or do you choose to believe you are worth it because you are the pearl of great price?

Do you really believe God’s not pleased with you because you don’t feel like He’s pleased? Or do you choose to believe He is pleased because you’ve become a son?

Do you really believe there’s no hope just because it feels hopeless? Or do you choose to believe there is always hope, because He’s a Helper and Counselor?

Do you really believe God is far away just because you don’t feel His presence? Or do you choose to believe that God is here because He decided to make YOU His residential address, and He doesn’t have plans to move?

Do you really believe you’re sinful, dirty, and unforgiven because you feel sinful and unforgiven? Or do you choose to believe Christ forgave ALL your sins, gave you a new creation, and cleansed you from ALL unrighteousness and gave you His righteousness?

So the real question of your entire Christian walk:

• Are you going to allow yourself to be dominated by what you feel?
• Or are you going to choose to be grounded by what you believe?

You’ll either allow your feelings to dictate your faith, or allow your faith to dictate your feelings. There’s only one option that will keep you solid and unshakable.

If your Christian walk has been up and down, tossed and turned, it’s probably you’re basing your confidence in feelings which change all the time, meaning your foundation is constantly affected by the weather. Other people will shake you, their words, their actions, life will shake you, it’s surprises and storms…

But if you want the grounded walk, one that’s like a house built on rock, one that’s stable… you have to choose to stand on what you believe, not what you feel when wind and waves start brewing. 

So when you start thinking, “I feel so discouraged!! I feel like a failure!! I feel like nothing is going to change! I feel like no one appreciates me! I feel stuck!”, are you going to crumble at what people and circumstances are saying? Or will you stand, unshaken, confident, and the move forward?

How do you feel today?