How can we be led by the truth and not our feelings?
The first is that,one way or the other, we will have to be broken. We will either be broken by a lie or by the truth. Jesus could have walked away from his sacrifice, but in doing so He would have actually ended up being alienated from His Father's will and heart. He had a choice - to resist the cross and leave the world a broken place, or else to be broken Himself so that the world might be drawn near and live.
The second is to unwittingly affirm the underlying message of the cross that even in the most evil expressions of life, God must be somewhere within reach. As we look around at the feeling-less atrocities we wonder, Where is God? And the answer comes: He is right in the middle -at the receiving end of our atrocities. When we come face to face with the cross, we have to make a choice: We either recognize the implications and bring ourselves, our passions and all that we are, to be crucified with Christ so that we might live within the sound of His voice and feel of His heart, or we walk away from the cross feeling alienated from God and others. We hear so much about coming to Christ but not enough about being crucified with him.
Something has to die, either the lie to which the feelings are subject, the truth to which those feelings must conform. Do we trust God and His truths, or do we trust our feelings and this worlds promises for the moment. Where do you go? The apostle Paul made a very simple statement to Timothy: "I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day." 2 Tim 1:12
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