Feelings vs. God's Truth

Romans 12:10 (The entire chapter is so good!)
Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;

I thought of this verse after listening to this podcast. It is so dangerous to base our relationship with God and others on our feelings. Yeah, sure these feelings vindicate our behavior and what we say, we FEEL. But what does God say in His word how we are to treat one another? Even in private relationships! When you think no one sees, God sees! We harm ourselves, as well as those we SAY we love.

Father God, help us to think about what we say before we speak. You say our words can hurt others. You say much in Your Holy Word about how to treat others, even our enemies, and certainly our loved ones.

Show us our hearts and the truth of why we are saying what we say that may be hurting others. Guard our minds and our mouths. Let the meditation of our hearts and the words of our mouths be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord my God, and my Redeemer. Awaken us to Your truth before it is too late and we have hurt someone again, and before our mouths are closed in this world forever. In Jesus' name. Amen.