The word "feeling" occurs but once in the Bible in connection with salvation, and then it is used in connection with the man “Who is past feeling," but faith in Christ is mentioned three hundred times. Conviction is one thing and emotion is another. The latter does not necessarily follow the former. Our feelings are like the weather, they may change daily; but God’s word, in which we trust, will never change.
Which would you rather trust? God’s unchanging word, or your ever-changing feelings?
You know you are a sinner and lost. What you need is Jesus Christ. Look to Him; accept Him; trust Him; confess Him; and He will do the rest. Take the blesser and you will have the blessing.
BUT as many as received Him (Christ), to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.
John 1:12.
See! you are to receive a personal Saviour, not work up some special feeling.
If you are waiting for the feeling that an earnest working Christian has, we would have you note, that feeling is the “fruit,” not the “root” of salvation. A feeling of joy, peace, and rest comes, because we “trust” in Christ, “confess” Him as our Savior, “defend” His cause, and try to “obey” Him.
AND we are His witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath glven to them that obey Him.
Acts 5:32.
It is to those that “obey Him” that the blessing is given—Repentance is doing what God commands you to do, whether you feel like doing it or not, and the feeling follows as you seek to do God’s will -—
BUT the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.
Galatians 5:22.
Never be guided by the experiences of some one else, but by God’s Word.
The Devil’s order is: 1st, Feeling; 2nd, Faith; 3rd, Fact; but God’s order is: 1st, Fact; 2nd, Faith; then Feeling.
“The Fact you’re a sinner, you cannot but see,That Faith in Christ saves you, is ever our plea;The feeling will follow in service and love;Then take from Christ Jesus His gift from above.”
AND they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Acts 16:31.
VERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me, HATH EVERLASTING LIFE, and shall not come into condemnation (judgment); but is passed from death unto life.
John 5:24.
BUT these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through His name.
John 20:31.
Some are making more of their feelings than they are of the Word of the Lord.
Feelings are as changeable as the wind. You get up many a cold morning when you don’t feel like it. Religion with the Christian is obedience; and the highway leading to the life “hid with Christ in God” is known as obedience, not feeling.
If I should puncture your arm with a needle and you should be unable to feel it, your anxiety would be intense, your condition physically would be regarded as very precarious indeed. When I come to talk to you, of your soul’s salvation, and you say you have no feeling, it shows the peril of your position.
Your very indifference ought to arouse you to thoughtfulness and action-—
Illustration: Matthew 9:9.