Article July 11, 2011 Issue

How can you feel God’s love?

By Sarah Nelson

First appeared as a web original on June 6, 2011

Two fish were swimming along in the ocean when one said to the other, “I just don’t feel the water today.”

Well, it’s there, of course! Similarly, because we live in God’s love, it’s natural for us to feel God’s love for us, and for us to feel love toward one another. But subtle suggestions may come, tempting us to believe we just don’t feel love toward a certain person, or maybe toward those of a different political group or culture. Thankfully, those suggestions are not one’s own thinking, as much as they may seem to be. They are what the Bible calls the “carnal mind” (Rom. 8:7). The “carnal mind” is characterized as an impersonal opposition to God’s goodness, and to His loving care for each of us.

I recently realized how tired I was of believing that thoughts of dislike were mine. I noticed, for example, that whenever I heard about news events taking place in our world, I’d automatically develop a dislike of an unjust world leader who was involved, or maybe I’d feel disgust toward a local politician who’d committed a crime.

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