Feelings Can Be Fatal

I am enjoying our new Sunday night service format with the Men’s and Women’s Breakout Sessions after worshiping in the sanctuary together. Last Sunday we spent the evening studying and praying about wisdom. It is something our church needs to pray for daily as we navigate this time without a senior pastor. We must never base our decisions on feelings, but on trusting the wisdom of God, and remaining steadfast in Him.

Would you take a job if you knew it would almost certainly kill you?  That’s essentially what the first airmail pilots did back in the 1920’s. Thirty-one of the first forty pilots crashed and died. Why?  Mostly because they lacked instruments – a gyroscope and artificial horizon –  that would tell them if they were flying straight and level. In clouds and darkness, pilots became disoriented and their senses delivered faulty information. They often flew straight into the ground at high speed.

“Trust your feelings” has become the mantra of the modern age. But feelings can and will lead us astray. Faulty feelings account for the destruction of countless marriages, millions of worthless lottery purchases, and a lot of bad bets on the hometown team. If one lives by the philosophy of trusting their feelings in decision making, one might as well get ready to crash and burn, because it’s only a matter of time.

How much better it is to “walk in wisdom” by consulting the ultimate guide, God’s Word the Bible, and seeking out wise friends and counselors who can provide balance and perspective. Proverbs 28:26 tells us, “Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.”

Your servant in Christ, Phillip