Whose Will Are You Doing?

Emotions and Personal Attachments

Placing emotions and personal attachments above obedience to the Holy Spirit of God will lead people to Hell.  Our emotions cannot be trusted if the Lord is not our Counselor (Isaiah 9:6).  Emotions can be deceptive, and Satan uses our emotions to manipulate us.  Love, hate, anger, happiness, sexual feelings, confusion - you name any emotion we can possibly “feel” as human beings, and I say be careful; tread cautiously.  

Unchecked emotions can and will control us.  It does not matter what we “feel” if God is not driving us.  Period.  

We may “feel” or “think” we know how to best handle situations, but if God is not the source of our actions, our thoughts, our feelings, then all is for nought.  Nothing. Empty.  Filthy Rags.

Too many times, under the disguise of ‘being a Christian’, we go against God’s will.  

I am convinced man’s attempt to emotionally gauge a situation has led to the birth of various denominations, has led to false teachings, has led to strife, has led to a complete distortion of God’s Holy Standard.

First, God has established His Standard.  In reality, no matter the debates and conjecture of the masses, there is no other standard except God’s Standard.  When we put God’s established way first, every decision we make thereafter is much easier.  

When we place the standards of others first or when we allow ourselves to fluctuate between what God says and what man says, we are bound to be UNfaithful to the Lord along the way.  This type of unfaithfulness is spiritual adultery.  And we know -based on God’s Standard- that adultery is grounds for divorce - be it spiritual or physical.  (Matthew 5:27, 5:28, 5:32, Hebrews 6:8, 2 Peter 2:21, 2:22)

Saul was anointed by God, but his emotions were driven by self, the need to be accepted by others, and his fear of others.  There were dire consequences for Saul.  Let this be a warning for all who profess loyalty to the Lord. (1 Samuel 15:22, 15:23, 15:24, 15:25, 15:35, 1 Samuel 28:15, 1 Samuel 28:6, 28:7, 28:16, 28:17, 28:18, 1 Chronicles 10:13, 10:14)

Solomon, too, was at one time loyal to the Lord, but he was ultimately ruled by his “feelings”.  Great was this man’s sin.  (1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Kings 11:2, 11:3, 11:4, 11:5, 11:6, 11:7, 11:8, 11:9)

Recently, I observed someone I care for do something that was against God’s Standard.  My flesh-led emotions wanted to view it differently than God’s Standard views it.  A decision had to be made on my part.  Would I allow my emotions rule on this matter and bend what God says in His Word, or would I say, “It is written.”

Whose will would I follow?  God’s?  Mine?  Others’?  We must be prepared to choose.  Better yet, we must be prepared to choose God’s Standard every single time.  

If we find ourselves negotiating God’s Standard because our allegiance to man is more important in the moment, we are deeply, deeply deceived.  Our unchecked emotions will even convince us that we are in God’s will.  Beloved, try the spirits.  A comfortable flesh is very deceptive.

How often do we negotiate God’s Standard - distort it or remove parts of it - in order to have people view us in a positive way?  “Oh, she is so nice.”   “She always makes me feel comfortable around her.”  Satan loves to use people’s perception of us in order to manipulate us into doing his bidding.  In other words, we start shaving a little off of God’s Standard here and there - all for the sake of man “appreciating us” and man claiming that we “really love them.”  

Satan is a master puppeteer!  But can we blame all things on Satan?  Can we be honest about an unchecked flesh?  Flesh - if left to its own devices - very readily accepts pride within itself.  Of course, the flesh will never call it “pride.”  Words like meek, humble, friendly, peacemaker, etc. are replacement words used by the flesh to fool us.  

We won’t be fooled by our own flesh if the Holy Spirit rules within us.  

If the flesh is not destroyed (mortified - put to death) by obedience to the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:13), then we will think ourselves special in the flesh. Beware! We will find ourselves manipulating the Word of God in order to have our flesh flattered by man’s “love” and “adoration” of us. Our flesh will communicate with the flesh of others in order to make people think we are ‘humble’ and that we truly ‘love’ them. Their flesh/ feelings will acknowledge the false ‘humility’ and ‘love’ and be very receptive to it --- especially if it means, they are not being called to turn from their sins nor being pricked in their hearts to beg the Lord’s forgiveness. If their heart does not have to be transformed, their ‘feelings’ will celebrate you. But such a celebration is worth absolutely nothing eternally.    

After the fleshly party and ultimately, at the Judgment, nothing remains from the celebration but the garbage that has continually defiled the hearts of ALL involved.  It’s a pitiful sight to behold.  I weep at this tragedy of corruption!

 

It is written:

Matthew 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

Mark 6:11And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Revelation 2:5Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Revelation 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

The Question Remains:  Whose Will Are You Doing?

Matthew 7:21

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.