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\u201cA peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones.\u201d -Proverbs 14:30 <\/em><\/p>\n We tend to live by emotion in our culture. \u201cJust do what feels right,\u201d seems to be the general norm. Many of our thoughts about right and wrong are based on our emotions, on what we perceive is right, or wrong. When someone hurts us, we stand on the perceived reality that they \u201churt our feelings.\u201d Sometimes we imply a motive behind others\u2019 actions which causes us to wrongfully judge them instead of asking about their intentions. We fail to employ discernment to see if the wound had a deeper root from something from our own past or even theirs. And then, we often do not do the even deeper work to discover and let God restore and heal what\u2019s broken through the power of forgiveness.<\/p>\n Faith, although a substance like emotion, is different from emotion. Faith comes as a response to God\u2019s words that knows that what the Bible says is true. It is a response to situations which says,\u00a0\u201cMy God is in control.\u201d<\/p>\n When we live by emotion, it\u2019s like our faith hasn\u2019t fully taken root in our hearts. It hasn\u2019t yet extended to those situations that make us upset. Jesus described it in this way:\u00a0\u201cThe seed cast in the gravel \u2013 this is the person who hears and instantly responds with enthusiasm. But there is no soil of character, and so when the emotions wear off and some difficulty arrives, there is nothing to show for it.\u201d -Matthew 13:20<\/p>\n Character is what we do when no one else is looking. It\u2019s also what we do in the midst of challenge. Do we bend and fold, or are we able to stand strong on the foundation of our faith? Living by faith ensures a firm foundation. Although it is natural to feel emotion, we should not make decisions based on our emotion. We should make them based on our faith.<\/p>\n \u201cThe rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.\u201d -Matthew 7:25<\/p>\n Let us be like the house on that firm foundation of faith, as we place our faith and trust in God with whatever difficulties come our way \u2013 no matter how we feel.<\/p>\n Subscribe Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Living by Faith Versus Living by Emotion \u201cA peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones.\u201d -Proverbs 14:30 We tend to live by emotion in our culture. \u201cJust do what feels right,\u201d seems to be the general norm. Many of our thoughts about right and wrong are based on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1051,348,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-9288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-emotion","9":"tag-faith","10":"tag-living"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}