We may wonder why is the word of God not bearing fruit in my life. Every time I go for a retreat or for a service in church I am filled with energy and I pray and read the word diligently for the next days, weeks or months and then the energy level comes down and eventually prayer and reading the word of God becomes a history in my life. This may be the case for a person who is working or studying or who is married and is at home caring for the children.
What we fail to understand is that “Our walk with God is not based on feeling but on faith”. Well now you must be saying yeah I have faith. Now, lets analyse that statement of ours, shall we?
The word of God says “I will never forget you”, come to think of it “How many times have we denied that saying ‘I think God has forgotten me’?”. What is faith and what is feeling?
Feeling is I need proof or evidence of His presence which my body and mind can know and feel, but as I said walk with God is not about feeling it is about faith, so when you live in faith you will say to yourself “God’s word says ‘I will never forget you’ I believe in the word of God and will not subscribe to any lie of the devil and I know God remembers me and has not forgotten me”. Now that’s faith, this faith will materialize though not immediately all the time, but slowly and surely.
When we continue to live the life of faith every moment of our life, we don’t need a retreat or a church service to keep us going in the LORD, we will continue to walk. When we fall in sin remember the LORD is merciful to forgive us, again believe in this word of God though all your understanding condemns you for it.
I have heard my friends say “Alwin, before when I used to pray I used to feel the presence of God all around me I used to feel the warmth physically, and I knew He was there for me and now when I pray I don’t feel any warmth I feel Jesus has deserted me and my family is going through such terrible times and Jesus seems nowhere near”.
We may have gone through things like these in our lives or may be not. Nevertheless, the desperate seeking that we do in such circumstances is genuine, ask me, I did it too. But what God wants us to do we are not doing. Now what is that. He has promised that He is with us. Question is do we believe in faith or go by feeling?
Until the day I tried to understand God and His working by feeling I failed miserably and the day I started believing in His word without question I found change, things didn’t change immediately but certainly something was happening to me in me.
Satan will not give up, he will try to sow the seed of doubt. One question that he surely will ask is “If God is working how come you don’t feel Him?”. Like Jesus if we were to tell Him what the word of God has to say about that situation he will flee.
I pray for each one of you reading this blog that you may understand the word of God and more importantly believe in Him.
God bless you 😇