How do you feel?

Life is so full of ups and downs. There are days when we just have nothing to say, nothing to give, nothing to brag about, so it seems. When we face these times, we face confusion. Why aren't we happy? We try to count our blessings, but all positivity is banished from our frontal cortex.

These times happen, but let me tell you, even when we don't "feel" the Lord or "feel" his blessings, they exist. He is our ever present Father. He is our deliverer. We need Him.

Jeremiah 17:9 says "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?" (NIV)

The human heart is messed up by sin, but God continues to pursue your heart. Even better, he promises to write His law on it.

Romans 6:17 says "But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness." (NIV)

We can rest assured that God has transformed our hearts, and continues to do so.

So my question is "Why do we allow how we feel to dictate our life?"

Think about it, and ask the Lord to make you faithful through it all.

I know, we need this assurance today.

So smile at this picture of Mark, my coworker and I in our awesome glasses.