Pastor Jim will be speaking on the New Covenant in Jeremiah 31 on Sunday, but it’s Jeremiah 17:9 that many of us remember from childhood. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
If Jeremiah were writing that today he may have contradicted Obi Wan and said, “Don’t trust your feelings!” “Your ‘feelings’ will lie to you.” Even though I know that, I still let my feelings rule the day sometimes. “I know this isn’t the wisest use of my time, but I don’t feel like cleaning right now.” “I know I shouldn’t be saying this, but it feels okay at the moment.” “The Bible may say that “x” is wrong, but I feel my situation justifies it.”
You get the point. It doesn’t take long for our feelings, our heart, to take us completely away from living in God’s absolute truth. We need to be careful. His rule is His word, not my heart.
Pastor Scott
Grace Notes 