Spiritual Fluff

This book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. (Joshua 1:8, NKJV)

Have emotions taken first place in your life or are you building your faith on the Word of God?

With today’s obsession to please everyone . . . all the time . . . absolutes get thrown out like the Sunday newspaper. What others think becomes more important then what God says. Standards are branded old fashioned.

The Bible is treated like a book of suggestions instead of God’s blue print for daily life. Once biblical foundations are compromised away we are left with fickle emotions for our spiritual guidance. Emotions change with the weather, but we have a Heavenly Father who never changes.

How serious do you take the Bible?

Are you content to merely randomly pluck out verses to make it say what you want to hear? Or, are you making Scripture part of your daily life? Which do you treat as more valuable; how you feel on a given day or the guidance God has handed down to us in the pages of the Bible?

God gave us our emotions. They are part of who we are. But feelings must be filtered through the sieve of God’s Word. The side of the bed you got up on this morning should never dictate the depth of your faith.

Don’t masquerade your emotions as “answered prayer” to justify your actions. If the “answers” you receive are contrary to Scripture you have been deceived.

A quilt is constructed with three layers. The decorative layer on top gives a quilt its beauty. The bottom layer lends stability. The batting sandwiched inside adds warmth and comfort.

Emotions can be compared with the fluffy middle layer of a quilt. By themselves emotions are reduced to a layer of spiritual fluff. They have little use without the other two layers.

The Bible provides both our beauty and our stability.