Feelings and Faith
FEELINGS AND FAITH
You can’t depend on feelings, for they will let you down;
One day you’ll feel like smiling, the next day want to frown.
God does not promise feelings to let you know He’s there,
For feelings are so fickle; they vanish in the air.
One day you’re on a mountain with feelings bright and gay,
And then a sorrow hits you, and you feel sad next day.
And when you’re sick or ailing, those feelings are so low;
They’ll not give you assurance when you to surgery go.
When all your friends forsake you, you’ll feel so all alone,
They won’t make you feel wanted or loved or close to home.
When death claims a beloved one, you’ll shed those tears, it’s true;
And feelings will not help you--you’ll just feel sad and blue.
There’s so much bad in life today that feelings never can
Give you assurance, peace, or joy, or purpose or a plan.
So God chose faith, a solid rock, on which you could rely,
A rock so sure that death itself can’t blacken up the sky.
For faith smiles in the darkness, when sorrow gets you down,
When sickness is prevailing, when friends cannot be found,
When through death’s vale you’re walking, when all seems dark and drear,
Faith still shouts out its message, “I’m with you, do not fear!”
And faith in God can conquer the worst of all your doubt,
Your ever-changing feelings that will never lift you out.
So do not trust your feelings; like quicksand they will be,
But live by faith in Jesus who died on Calvary.
For feelings cannot save you, and feelings cannot keep,
And feelings won’t protect you when you lie down to sleep.
But faith is strong and steady when it’s placed in God above
Who gives you not the feeling, but the reality of His love.
Copyright © Clarence Billheimer | Year Posted 2019
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