I don’t always feel God’s presence.

In fact, I might even say that I don’t often feel His presence.

I don’t always feel joy and peace.

I can feel lonely and depressed, irritated and angry, and then feel guilty that I feel those things when my life is so good.

Feelings. So fickle.

The question is not whether God is still there when I don’t feel His presence.

The question is not whether God’s peace and joy are still inside me when I can’t feel them.

He has already promised never to leave me. He has already promised that nothing can separate me from His love.

He has already promised that I can have joy in all circumstances. He has already promised that His peace is beyond understanding.

Will I believe it?

When darkness closes in, will I believe that the light is still there?

Will I trust God’s Word more than my own heart?

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? ~ Jeremiah 17.9

It’s hard in a world telling us that feelings are what is real. We are taught that whatever we feel, whatever we think, this is truth.

Regardless of what I think or feel, however, there is Truth that is above all else.

And that Truth tells me that I am held closely by God no matter what.

Yet now He has reconciled you to Himself through the death of Christ in His physical body. As a result, He has brought you into His own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before Him without a single fault. ~ Colossians 1.20-22 (Italics mine)

He has already done this, and this will never change. No matter what my feelings tell me.