In yesterday's post, you read that we are not called to base our knowledge and belief in God's Word on our feelings. Instead, we are called to renew our minds to the truth of who God is and who we are in His love.
How is our mind renewed? By the Word of God:
"As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:" (1 Peter 2: 2)
and
"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3:18)
The "Spirit of the Lord" is also in accord with the Word of God:
"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." (John 6: 63)
James also explains the power of the Word of God, as identified also as the perfect law of liberty:
"But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." (James 1: 25)
Through God's Word, we learn no longer to rely on the world that we see, we walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5: 7), and most importanly:
"And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." (1 John 4: 16)
Regarding God's love, we are high on believing first, then the thoughts and feelings follow. We do not have to strive for a sense of God's love, but rather continue in His word, which makes us His disciples indeed! (John 8: 31)
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