Feelings … oh, oh, oh feelings …

People are addicted to feelings.

The biggest problem with that?

We like to feel instead of do.

We want to have experiences without the effort. We want the results of action without the personal application.

Even in the church.

We want the relational interactiveness, power, and results of prayer but say we’re too embarrassed to pray in public (even though we do little of it privately).

We want the promises of God as extended to us in the Bible, without learning or applying the Bible.

We want God’s constant, immediate attention to our “needs” but feel awkward expressing ourselves in a worship service.

We want to feel it, we want to have it. We do not want to think it, study it, learn it, apply it, do it, live it, in order to be it.

If that’s how we really approach things, we likely won’t be it.

Enjoy the emotions …

Scotty