today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Do not get so spiritual that you overlook

that God's intentions for the world are good.

And don't just sit back and say, well, Jesus is enough.

Yes, Jesus is enough, but Jesus came to do something on earth,

and that is to bring salvation and restoration and blessing.

And I want to see that goodness at work in the world, in my life, in my family, in our church,

in our community.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich.

St. Augustine once said that our deepest emotions often function like smoke from a fire.

They can indicate that there's a problem in our hearts before we can articulate it.

In this new teaching series, we began at the end of last week. Pastor Jady will be showing us that the aim of the Bible's teaching on emotions isn't to suppress

them or even to manage them, but to read them accurately, express them honestly, and allow the

gospel to reshape them completely.

You're joining us right at the beginning, so let's rejoin Pastor J.D. as he addresses the first difficult emotion of depression.

We must never feel our way into our beliefs. We have to instead believe our way into our feelings. You don't feel your way and you believe. You believe you way into your

feelings. A lot of Christians get that we walk by faith and not by sight. What they don't get

is that we walk by faith and not by feeling. For many Christians, what they feel is the most

reliable indicator of what is true. I feel like God has forgotten me. I feel distant from him. Jeremiah says, I feel all of

those things, but God's word tells me they are not true, and I choose to believe his words, even though I

can't feel them right now. Luther, Luther used to call this, drowning out the voices of despair with the

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