Just discovered a very cool blog/website (www.pdymblog.com). It is a comunity of like-minded youth workers. The last article posted there is entitled “I Don’t Feel God“. Like Kevin Mahaffy, Jr, I have talked to students that ask the question, “I DON’T FEEL GOD”. Certainly we all at one time or another ask the ‘don’t feel God’ question.
Kevin thinks that people/students live for the feelings and thereofre they are in pursuit of ‘feeling’. But Jesus is didn’t say, “I am… the good, long lasting, exciting feeling…” What He said about Himself is that he is the “Way, the Truth and the Life”. What a difference! So, maybe we should start living, searching and pursuing the truth rather than the feelings.
Here is Kevin Mahaffy’s challenge for all of us:
I constantly challenge our students, and today I challenge you, to live your life for a greater purpose than feelings. If you have built your relationship with the Lord on feelings, you have built your spiritual home on shifting sands. Feelings come and go, but faith must remain consistent. My grandfather used to tell me that it’s not how high you jump; it’s how straight you walk when you land. He wasn’t negating the jumping. Rather, he was emphasizing the more important thing – the walking. The steps we take when we don’t feel God are the true test of the moments when we do feel Him.
