So many of us can easily be misled in to thinking that we must FEEL something in order for validity to be assigned. This thinking does serve its purpose at points. I know as a performer, my choices as to what songs to do were often based upon whether I “FELT” them or not. I don’t just want to sing a song, I want feel an emotional journey with it and in turn perform it. Yet early on in life, I started applying the this need to “feel” everything. At first, you might think this idea of mine wasn’t faulted, yet let me purpose a question for you. Have your feelings ever mislead you? Relationships turned sour that you never felt would end, impulsive purchases, off the cuff comments birthed out of feelings of frustration that in turn ended a friendship…each of these and more could be a prompting for your memory to conjure up examples of why feelings can mislead us. I remember early in my walk with Jesus, I started to understand that Jesus Christ knew how fleeting, misleading, and volatile feelings of a human can be. When I saw this, I began to comprehend that Jesus wouldn’t want to use such a temporary medium as feelings in order to paint his presence in our lives. If Jesus’ love, faithfulness, comfort, mercy…. were dependent upon my “feeling” them…my relationship with Jesus would be very tumultuous, a rollercoaster of highs and lows. Jesus Christ is offering stability to our lives. Something that many of us have thirsted after for years. Through his stability, we are offered permanent love. Not love based on whether Jesus Christ “feels” something, but instead based on the FACT that HE IS LOVE--His very nature can be nothing less. The validity of Christ’s presences in our lives has nothing to do with our feelings and EVERTHING to do with His promise to never leave us—His Faithfulness—His devotion—His Life Giving Love. Our Feelings cannot be the fuel we seek in our relationship with Jesus Christ, due the fact of the frail nature. Instead, we must remember that it is He that is He who has given the validity to His love for us…Not our feelings. May God be the blessing you are seeking this evening. Pastor Daniella.