A Very warm welcome to You today, from Pastor Grace!
Feeling - 2
Happy and blessed feeling is the effect of the Spirit's work on the soul.
"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace..."
He is the assurance of our inheritance, and though in our minority we cannot expect to enter on the fullness of our heritage, we are privileged to enjoy its first fruits.
There are prelibations of the river of His pleasures, and stray notes from the full chorus of bliss. When the Holy Ghost reveals the Bridegroom, the loving heart is glad, even though the nuptials are not yet celebrated.
But the lack of feeling does not always indicate we are wrong.
There may be causes, as we have seen, which account for our depression.
It may be that Christ would teach us to distinguish between love and the emotion of love, between joy and the rapture of joy, between peace and the sense of peace.
Or perhaps He may desire to ascertain whether we cling to Him for Himself or for His gifts.
Father,
thank You for Your love, joy and peace bubbling inside me today,
in Jesus' name,
Amen.
