Day 83 - It's about Faith not Feeling!

Today's Reading: Deut. 19-20 and Rom. 4

How can I not comment on what we are reading in Romans? There's so much depth here that books could be written on the subject, and indeed books HAVE been written on these chapters as they talk about what it means to believe God and walk by faith. 

I love when I read this chapter as I'm reminded again that God can give life to the dead. And He calls those things that do not exist as though they did. 

There are things in our life that we pray for, that we hope for, that we keep pleading for: Maybe it's for healing, maybe it's for salvation for a loved one, maybe it's for deliverance from a trial. But we don't see the answer. Sometimes we don't even feel that God is hearing? I had someone come to me just yesterday at work who is up against a mountain and they have been pleading for God to intervene, but they see no sign that God is answering. They FEEL forsaken and forgotten by God! So when faced with these situations, what are we to do? We are to keep believing God's Word.

Inspiration tells us: 

"What has faith to do with feeling? Faith takes God at his word, with or without feeling. It “is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” We can believe our fellow-men, and can we not trust the word of God? When we go to him for wisdom or grace, we are not to look to ourselves to see if he has given us a special feeling as an assurance that he has fulfilled his word. Feeling is no criterion. Great evils have resulted when Christians have followed feeling. Satan can give feelings and impressions, and those who take these as their guides will surely be led astray. How do I know that Jesus hears my prayer? I know it by his promise. He says he will hear the needy when they cry unto him, and I believe his word. He has never said to the “seed of Jacob, seek ye me in vain.” {Signs of the Times, May 15, 1884, par. 4}

What lessons we learn from Abraham's walk of faith. As the Bible says, he did not waver at the promise of God in unbelief, but believed that what God had promised, He is able to perform. May this be our testimony as well.... as we continue to walk by faith. God has said it, although we cannot see it, someday we will. For His Word is true!

Tomorrow's Reading: Deut. 21-22 and Psalm 35