Let’s check in.
This morning, do you feel emotion, or do you feel numb?
God invites us on the journey of life in Him. This journey includes mountaintops and valleys, joy despite circumstances, rejoicing and sorrow. He invites us into courageous faith. A faith that believes we can feel. We don’t have to be afraid of the full range of human emotion, because we know He is with us in it.
Feeling deeply opens space for us to encounter God in what we are already walking through.
Comfort that avoids emotion is not true comfort but disconnection.
Emotions are not enemies to stability; they are doorways to encounter God.
He meets us in our longing.
He meets us in fear.
He holds us in grief.
He dances with us in rejoicing.
Life with Jesus is alive.
Trying to feel less heartbreak might seem safer or more manageable, but that is not the path to holy joy, eternal peace, or lasting hope. To experience God in our midst, we must be brave enough to feel. We must be brave enough to live the life God handcrafted around us, trusting His promise that He will never leave us in it alone.
He is here, and we are invited to live fully alive in Him.
James 2:17 (NIV) says, “In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”
In James, we see what living, breathing faith looks like. Faith by itself is dead, but faith accompanied by action is alive. That action is trust. That action is obedience.
Perhaps part of that action is this: trusting God enough to feel. Trusting Him enough to stay present in our real lives instead of numbing them. Obedience isn’t only what we do externally. Sometimes obedience is the courage to remain present internally.
Do we trust God to be with us? Do we trust Him enough to give us freedom to feel and fully live the life before us — all for His glory?
Britt Goff #WheatfulWednesday
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