Peace follows obedience
If you wait until you feel like obeying God, you never will. The feelings follow the obedience. This modus operandi works when we obey the Lord about anything. Feelings have little to do with obeying Jesus. The majority of God's people gave in to their "feelings" of fear and dread at the end of wandering in the desert for 40 years. Finally they could see the end of their long journey! All they had to do was cross over into the Promised Land and they would receive all that God had promised them. What held them back? Fear. There are giants in the land! They chose to focus on what could go wrong, what may or may not happen if they entered in - those giants were huge! What if they killed us? What if they enslaved us? They must have painted all the worst-case scenarios and they let those "what ifs" keep them from moving forward into the land of plenty - the land flowing with milk and honey. Joshua and Caleb saw things differently. They knew that God was w