My feelings are not God. God is God.
My feelings do not define truth.
God’s word defines truth.
My feelings are echoes and responses
to what my mind perceived.
And sometimes – many times –
my feelings are out of sync with the truth.
When that happens – and it happens
every day in some measure – I try not to bend
the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but
rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions
of your truth and transform my feelings so that
they are in sync with the truth.
--John Piper, Finally Alive
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