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FLYING BY FEELING

Among the old barnstorming pilots, there was an expression, "flying by the seat of your pants," which merely meant to fly by feeling rather than instruments. While these pilots were colorful, many lost their lives because their "feelings" were often inaccurate. It is much safer and wiser to fly by the book and by instruments than flying by feeling.

For years, the Israelites had been following their feelings rather than God's Word. Eventually, the Word was lost; and people became very evil. One day, the high priest found the Word and had it read to the king. Then people began to see how far they had strayed by following feeling rather than fact.

God has given us the Bible and His Holy Spirit as instruments for our lives. Satan would tempt us to follow the feelings of flesh rather than the prompting of the Holy Spirit and the admonition of God's Word. If we do this, however, spiritual catastrophe results. Israel learned too late the tragedy of following feeling. Real happiness is carefully following the instruments God has given.

““Go to the Temple and speak to the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah. Inquire about the words written in this scroll that has been found. For the Lord’s great anger is burning against us because our ancestors have not obeyed the words in this scroll. We have not been doing everything it says we must do.””

‭‭2 Kings‬ ‭22:13‬ ‭NLT‬‬