I have a horrible confession to make. I do not always feel like being nice or doing the right thing. I don’t always feel like stopping what I am doing to help someone else or use my time for anything or anyone except what I am focused on.
Does this make me a bad person? It just means that I am allowing my moods to control me. I am living a life guided by my feelings. I am making Satan very happy.
If I live my life by my feeling, I will be a very sad and unhappy person. My standards give me no worth, no joy, and no true fulfilment. God’s standards are the ones that fulfill. I don't always need to feel it as “it is” but rather I need to feel it as “it should be.” I need to feel it and act it as God wants it to be.
Reflecting on my own moods and acting on my own feelings make me feel like Jonah who ran from the Lord because he did not feel like doing what the Lord requested. And where did that get Jonah?
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