Our daily choice

From C.S. Lewis: "On a daily basis, we are faced with two simple choices. We can either listen to ourselves and our constantly changing feelings about our circumstances, or we can talk to ourselves about the unchanging truth of who God is and what He's accomplished on the cross for us in His Son, Jesus."

Amen!! How often I need to be reminded of this! This is another way of putting what Jennifer Rothschild shared about proclaiming "what is" rather than "what if." We must daily, hourly counsel our hearts that God is faithful, omnipotent, righteous, holy, perfect, loving, and we must act based upon that truth rather than upon our fickle, unreliable feelings. If we have to repeat it out loud a thousand times a day, then do it! Say it!

Stop wallowing in self-pity or selfishness. Stop allowing all the fearful "what if's" to fill our hearts and minds. Stop dredging up the past and condemning ourselves for sins we have taken to the cross or circumstances that cannot be changed.

Act and speak the Truth we know rather than the emotions we feel. Sure, those feelings are real, and God made us with personalities and souls that feel pain and joy and fear and hope, but He also gave us His eternal Word to guide and and steady and instruct us and His supernatural Holy Spirit to encourage and enable and direct us. Will we surrender to Him and His Truth or to our emotions? Might we daily choose Him and the Truth over our feelings and sinful selves. To God be the glory!