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Feelings Aside
Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010 (message contributor)
FEELINGS ASIDE
A man once came to a preacher and said, "I was filled with joy in the meeting yesterday. Now it has all gone—all—and I do not know what to do. It is as dark as night."
"I am so glad," was the preacher's reply.
He looked at the servant of Christ with astonishment and said, "What do you mean?"
"Yesterday God gave you joy. Today He sees you are resting on your emotion instead of Christ. He has taken it away in order to turn you to Christ. You have lost your joy, but you have Christ. Have you ever passed through a railway tunnel?"
"Yes, often."
"Because it was dark, did you become melancholy and alarmed?"
"Of course not."
"And did you, after a while, again come into the light?"
"I am out now!" he exclaimed, interrupting the servant of Christ. "It's all right, feelings or no feelings!"
— A.E. Janzen
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