Sometimes feelings are difficult to ignore.  They can take hold of us and dominate our lives if we allow it.  We may know the facts and answers to our problems, and we may know that we should never live by feelings because they are fickle.  But we are human.

Like Elijah, some of us get depressed even after great spiritual victories.  Like Moses, some of us run away from our problems (as he did when he fled to Midian for 40 years after killing the Egyptian).

My Experience with Feelings Lately

They can be overwhelming and controlling when everything is falling apart around me.  Here is what I feel:

• That I cannot possibly go back to school this fall to face those teenagers and deal with their behavior issues and everything involved in my job of teaching in a public high school.
• That I have no energy, mentally or physically, to deal with financial issues or to fulfill my role as wife, mother, daughter, and teacher.
• That there are no answers to pressing and present needs in my immediate and extended family.
• That the future is falling apart.  Needed home repairs we can’t afford, health issues, debt, lack of health insurance, the economy, etc…etc…
• That I can barely drag myself out of bed in the mornings to face each day, so how am I going to begin to balance everything when I go back to work in a few weeks?
• That I am not very spiritual nor am I a very good Christian or else I would not be having these overwhelming feelings.

The Facts I Know

• That God will supply my needs (Phil. 4:19).
• That my strength will be renewed as I wait and trust in the Lord (Isaiah 40:31).
• My heavenly Father knows what my needs are and what my family’s needs are, and He has the answers (Matt. 6:32).
• God has plans for my/our future (Jeremiah 29:11).
• My Father God will strengthen and uphold me and help me (Isaiah 41:10).
• That God began a good work in me, and He will complete it, eventually making me into all I should be (Phil. 1:6).

It seems like such a long journey, and it is not an easy one.  If you are like me then sometimes you wonder how you can even keep going, but God’s promises are true.  He is faithful; He has never failed us.  He does not lie to us.  We must never quit but instead hold on to Him and His promises.  He will bring us through and lift us up.  I know that.  I believe Him.  I trust Him.

I thank Him for His grace to me in spite of all my flaws and weaknesses.

God bless you Christian Kindred.

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