Daily Devotional

LET GO OF INSENSITIVITY AND NOT CARING

March 30

hild of the King, do you enjoy your fellowship with the Heavenly Father? Do you sense a genuine closeness to God and receive a deep satisfaction in that communion? Or, is this language a bit strange? Are you accustomed to serving God without any awareness of your Father being real and close as your breath to you? You may say, "I really haven't given this much thought! I have sort of a legal and contractual relationship to God. He has forgiven my sins, and I accept that, so I am just floating through my Christian life, navigating the dangers and difficulties and hoping for the best." Here is a challenge to you from your Father in Heaven: Ask Him for a meaningful, rich, deep and loving relationship to develop between you and Him. Well, if you have only a contractual, legal relationship with your loved ones, then you are missing the best part of love and closeness. Your marriage and home based on no feelings and no intimacy is empty and tasteless. In fact, the Bible says, "Taste and see that the Lord is good!" (Psalm 34:8a) It shows you that your senses can detect the nearness and blessings of the Lord your God. If you have been living at a distance from your Father, and the Holy Spirit has not stirred your love and affections for God, then you need to get some healing for your unfeeling state of being. Ask for it. The Bible is so full of references to men and women having enjoyment in their close, personal relationship with the Father through the precious Holy Spirit that it is truly undeniable! You argue, "My family does not release their emotions. Our background is to be very reserved and we do not get involved on a deep personal basis with people." Well, you should know a little secret: something is wrong with your family! Don't live out another generation where insensitive, unfeeling people rule out. Let that stop at your generation, and say, "from here on, through the power of the Lord Jesus I am going to reach out to the Father, I am going to allow the flow of His great love to go to me and through me to those that I truly love and cherish." A great part of the encouragement which can come to you is through the fact that you can visit deeply and joyfully with the Father through the communion of the Holy Spirit. It will leave you so joyful and blessed that you are powerfully endeared to Him and rise up to serve him with "gladness" as the Bible commands you. Don't spend one more day like this. Get up and pursue God with all your might! Get people to pray for you if necessary and come out of this bondage to insensitivity, and tradition. Love deeply, (fervently); feel what others feel and enter their suffering and into their joys with them; rejoice with those who rejoice; sing songs of praise (this takes feelings) to your Father; bless and do not curse others; (more feelings). Beloved all these are biblical commandments. How can you deny this? Get up and let God fill you with true emotions of joy, peace, laughter, freedom, personal caring involvement with others, and you will not regret the day of this new beginning for you!

Prayer

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Father, I thought that my unfeeling life was normal for me. After all, I thought, my personality is different from others. I now know that this is not so. I will release myself from this bondage so that I may enter a land of deep joy and personal love with you and others. I want and will get the deep satisfaction that comes when we have communed together with happy love and grace. I take this to myself and receive it in Jesus’ name, amen!