Saturday, January 6, 2018

Feelings

“Have faith in God” (Mark 11:32).
“For by grace are ye saved through faith”
(Ephesians 2:8).

“Faith” comes before “feelings” in the dictionary, and so it does in the matter of our spiritual blessing. Many would like to reverse it. They would like to feel happy before in simple faith they have taken God at His word, but God would not have our assurance of salvation to rest on such a flimsy foundation as our feelings. He would have us rest on Christ and His atoning sacrifice.

Feelings ebb and flow and come and go like the tides that wash the shore. Christ’s work is abiding. God’s way is unchanging. It has been put something like this: The Lord Jesus did it, the holy God says it, I, the sinner, believe it.

The Lord Jesus suffered for sins upon Calvary’s cross.

The holy God says, “Whosoever believeth in Him (the Lord Jesus) shall receive remission of sins.”

I, the sinner, believe what God says about His Son and what He has done. I know that forgiveness of sins is mine.

Happy feelings depend upon our faith in Christ’s sacrifice and in God’s Word about it.