Real Feelings

It seems too often that we trust what we feel to be real more readily than we trust what we know to be real. It is easier to say we are loved when we "feel" it than when we acknowledge it as a truth. Why is this?

So often our feelings let us down. I can remember teenagers telling me they felt they were in love, or married couples deciding to live by those feelings instead of just acknowledging and demanding love from themselves.

Most often in my life, sin happens when I don't "feel" God's presence, as the times I feel it, I'm pretty good at not sinning. Funny thing is, I know the truth. That should be enough. I should be able to live by the truth I know, not just the truth I feel.

How do you get something to cross that line? Some things have. I know the support of my wife, or my family without having to feel it. I can not have seen my parents for weeks, and the support they have for me still remains very real in my life, regardless of if I feel it or not. What does it take to make something cross into the category of real, regardless of feeling? I want so much to live my life according to what I know is real, but too often, I live my life only according to what feels real. I'm missing out.