I can't trust how I feel.

My life has been different from what I had expected and the funny thing is that I never expected or planned a "perfect" life where my ducks are in a row by age 25. Needless to say, I expected the worst but hoped for the best. But even with that mentality, life still surprises you and the hurt isn't real until you're facing it.

During those hurting times, I claim Romans 8:28 which says, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."  Everything that has happened to me: the heartaches and heartbreaks, the tear-stained face, the seemingly endless line of questions that ran through my mind, all the hurt that was caused...there is a purpose for all of it.

Maybe you're in that hurting time right now where nothing seems like anything good can come out of it. It's a hard truth to grasp. Especially right now, nothing makes sense. By all means, have your pow wow. Release the tension and stress built up in your body because of this situation. CRY.  You are human with emotions stemming from the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. You were born with emotions. Don't let anyone tell you that you are not allowed to feel a certain way. So, have your moment. Just a moment. But when do you stop that moment? As soon as you start believing your emotions.

When the tension is released remember this: even though emotions are natural, it is not definite truth. When our emotions take the reigns of our life and we live off of how we feel, it calls for disaster. (Proverbs 28:26)
 Ask yourself this:
1. How many different emotions did you feel today? sad, irritated, gleeful, lazy, etc. 
2. Did your emotion change because of a circumstance? 
3. How do you feel now as opposed to an hour ago?
4. Could you live in a roller coaster at a theme park your whole life? 
Trust me when I say this, you will feel different. Maybe not in an hour or two, but you will. I can't trust my emotions to rule my life because it changes so much.

*You know what I love about the truth? Truth stands no matter the circumstances or time.  Unlike its competitor emotions, truth doesn't change. {God is truth}.

Stand on these truths for tonight. The very hurt that you are feeling right now is real. But like all feelings, it will go away. Don't trust your emotions. This situation is temporary. Hang in there. God promises that it will all work together for good. 

Meditate on these truths. 

John 14:27, Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

John 16:33, There things I have spoken unto you, that in me yea might have peace. In the world yea shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. 

II Corinthians 4:16-18 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen:for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal

*I will expound on this in the next post.