WE WALK BY FAITH NOT FEELINGS

We cannot see the good in what is happening. We cannot see how things will work out. We cannot see where and how God is at work. We cannot see any profit in all of our doing right. That is just the point: We cannot SEE. That is why we do not walk by sight, but by faith. How do we Walk By Faith? First, we WALK. Walking is an unremarkable, usual, common, everyday way we transport ourselves. If I were to skip or run down the aisle in a church service that would garner comment and remarks after church. But, no one comments because I simply walked down the aisle. That is common, usual, expected. To Walk By Faith is to keep on going, keep on serving God, in the everyday, usual, mundane routine of everyday life regardless of what may or may not be happening in my life. To walk implies forward progress. It is the opposite of stopping, quitting, or turning around. We WALK by faith. We keep faithfully serving God, putting one foot in front of the other. Walking also implies a destination. To Walk By Faith is to never forget we are going somewhere and to keep moving towards that goal. Second, we Walk, NOT By Feelings. We are so affected by what we see that we can re-quote, “We walk by faith and not by sight,” to “We walk by faith and not by feelings.” Our emotions are influenced and affected far more by what we see than what we don’t see. We see the bill, the doctor’s report, the smashed up car, etc. Seeing the bad, our emotions react accordingly. If we go by those emotions, we will detour from serving God. We cannot go by our emotions. How can our emotions that are influenced by what we see ever lead us to what we cannot see? We cannot control our emotions. We can go to bed at night euphoric from feeling the Spirit in a service and awake the next morning totally spiritually depressed, grouchy, and feeling ugly. We can control what we do with our emotions. We can choose to keep on walking. Emotions are fickle and unreliable. Emotions can be good. God gave us emotions. Emotions are like the drunk driver that should never be allowed in the driver’s seat. Good emotions make a great passenger but a poor driver. Lastly, We Walk By Faith. Faith is not hocus pocus, hype, denial of reality, or screwing up our minds in concentration to change things. The root of faith is faithfulness. We Walk By Faith. We keep believing God by continuing to be faithful to Him, His Word, His House, His ways. Walking will take one somewhere. Walking by faith will take him to victory, to blessing, and all the way to an eternity with God