July 26, 2008

On Faith and Feelings

“The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to a life of feeling. He who lives by sensation can follow God’s will or seek the things above purely at the time of excitement; should this blissful feeling cease, every activity terminates. Not so with one who walks by faith. Faith is anchored in the One whom he believes rather than in the one who exercises the believing, that is, himself. Faith looks not at what happens to him but at Him whom he believes.”

- Watchman Nee from his book “The Spiritual Man”

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