I will strive to ignore feelings. Spiritual ecstasies are helpful, and even necessary, to the babe in Christ because he has not learned to walk by faith. But God is most honored when I simply take Him at His word, not when I am looking for spiritual dessert. If I do not have spiritual ecstasies, therefore, it is because God thinks I am capable of the strong meat of faith and obedience.
And those other feelings—fear, anxiety, doubt, worry—I must nail to the cross. Since they are mostly products of my body—its glands, blood, and digestion—to listen to them is to be earthy and animal. I cannot reason with them any more than I can reason with undigested potatoes. I can only ignore them, force my mind to think of better things, and know that God is far greater than a gland, a stomach, or a corpuscle.
It really boils down to this: Shall I listen to God’s Word about myself or to my body’s word about myself?
Victory comes when I deliberately say to my body: “I ignore you!” and when I say to my soul, “Hope you in God” (Psalm 42:5, Amp.). When I hope in God I am deliberately cutting past my moods, which ebb and flow, to a solid anchor, an unchangeable mooring. Not to have moods, of course, is not to be human: but to succumb to my moods is certain defeat. Hoping in God is a timeless remedy for a temporary mindset.
“Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16).
Daily with the King 