"God is real, no matter how you feel" was the first phrase in the chapt 14 of Purpose Driven Life.
"God is more concerned that you trust him than that you feel him. Faith, not feelings, pleases God." extracted from Purpose Driven Life
Many times, I've made this mistake which is trying to feel God rather than to really seek Him, which resulted in disappointment when I don't feel Him.
Sam made an analagy on pilots and how they make use of the instruments in the plane to make them fly up and down. So, usually... at night or when it's very cloudy at night where the sky is totally dark, the pilots will have a hard time trying to maintain the plane straight coz of visual problem. And since it's dark, the pilots will feel that they bodies are leaning backwards and the plane is accelerating upwards.
Therefore, their feelings will tell them that they should steer the control down in order to keep them flying straight instead of going up. And this caused the plane to crash downwards.
Coz the plane is actually moving straight and the instruments on the plane are showing them that they are flying normally. But because of their "gut feel", it cost them their lives.
It's same as applying it to God. When you don't feel Him, it doesn't mean He's not there... Have faith in Him and He also made His promise to you that "He will never leave you nor forsake you."
Suddenly when Sam was saying the analagy, what Daniel said in the past to me came to my mind. That time I was in Sec school and I don't feel like going to cell grp one day, and attitude this cell group leader. So he said to me,' Must it be a feel that you come to cell group?'
I always rmb this and always asked myself... must it be a feel that I do this and that?
Ya.. sometimes, feelings fluctuates.. feelings are not very accurate instruments of measuring things.
posted by soda-pop @ 11:05 pm
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