By Marco Jericho
If I feel like it, I’ll do it. Typical line you’ve heard so many times and you may even have said it yourself. It’s as if we decide not to act on the moment and wait for this mysterious feeling to empower us and charge us up! We are living in a culture that if you do not have feelings for it, then you should just move along and all is well. Society teaches us to act on feelings as our sole guide, our GPS to everything. The problem is many of us believers drag that concept into our faith life. Guess what? It becomes messy, filled with doubts and insecurity sets in. It robs you of your perception of who God is.
You’re Not Alone! Expose it!
At one point in your faith, you may have been struggling with this dilemma and probably didn’t tell anyone. Most of the time, we go through this situation and feel we have to hide it rather than share with someone. You might even feel ashamed to admit this fact. You may be involved right now in ministry at church, and feel too embarrassed to share with someone the emptiness you feel. And so the mind begins telling us all kinds of stuff.
David wrote the biggest book in the Bible, or the biggest rap album in other words. Several times he says he doesn’t feel God anymore. In Psalm 13 he opens up bluntly asking ‘how long will this go on?’ How long won’t I feel you anymore? Does this sound familiar to you? David could have hidden away and not talked about it. After all, he was a successful worship leader, got a great rep as king, and was the author of the biggest book of the Bible. Yet he chose to expose to God and those around him, what was going on in his life. The strong and silent type characters don’t last long in the kingdom of God. Those who admit their weakness and expose it, do. [Tweet]
Don’t Freak out, Trust Him!
We have a tendency to express to God our joy, sadness, desperation, thankfulness with much detail .Yet when we don’t feel His presence anymore we tend to not even tell Him about it. We decide to deal with it in our own little way. Your journey of faith may have been filled with great feelings and great moments with God. It may have even led you to believe that now you have some sort of standard to keep up with. Anything less than that makes you believe it jeopardizes who you are in Him. David recognized his standard was not based on himself and what he had done in the past, but was based on who God is.
Past moments and how great you felt in God should never be your foundation of trust, rather your foundation should be on His greatness. God is after hearts that are in pursuit of Him. [Tweet] Reading the whole chapter, you expect to read how David’s situation changed, but you don’t. His situation didn’t change, his revelation of who God had changed. Despite how David felt, verse 5 tells us “I trusted in your love and salvation”. His feelings may have been numb, but he stayed hungry for God and relied on two things that can never change: God’s unconditional love and salvation. His love and salvation are never based on a feeling or moment, but on who He is. [Tweet]
Worship and Repeat
Ever tried singing your favourite song at your worst moment? That is exactly what David did. Sometimes people tell me they don’t worship because they’re not feeling it and want to be honest about it. They believe by not singing they are being honest before God, rather than “faking it”. Here’s the thing, the best moments of worship happen when you don’t want to worship. In fact, the Bible calls it the sacrifice of praise (Hebrews 13:15). It simply means that, there are moments in your life when just worshipping is a sacrifice you make. But the sacrifice you make out of your breakdowns, brings forth the biggest breakthroughs in your life. [Tweet] Worship is about Him and never about how we feel. Feelings may come and go, but God still continues to be unconditional towards you.
Have you worshipped Him today?
