7. "But must I not feel different?”

It is a remarkable fact that the word "feel" is only found once in the New Testament, and that is in Paul's sermon to the Athenians, where he rebukes them for imagining the Godhead to be like unto silver and gold, and shows that the true God is the Creator of all things, "and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and bath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring" (Acts 17:26-28). Now you find the word "feel" right in the very midst of this passage, but it has nothing to do with the gospel, but rather with the heathen groping in the dark, "if haply they might feel after God." You are not in their ignorant condition. You have heard the gospel. You know of the one living and true God. You are not told to feel anything, but to believe His record.
Then it may interest you to know that the word "feeling" is only found twice in the New Testament, and never has anything to do with the message of salvation. In Eph. 4:19 the Spirit of God describes the state of certain unbelieving Gentiles in these words: "Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness." This is what continual indulgence in sin does for people. They become insensate—"past feeling," and so conscience ceases to register, as they plunge into one excess and enormity after another.
The only other place where we read of "feeling" is in a very different connection. In Heb. 4:15, our blessed Lord Himself is brought before us in a very precious verse: "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”
Nowhere else do we read of feeling in all the New Testament! But oh, how many times we read of believing, of faith, of trust, of confidence! Yes, these are the words for us. Ignore your feelings altogether, and tell the Lord Jesus now that you will trust Him and confess Him before men.
“Jesus, I will trust Thee,
Trust Thee with my soul;
Weary, worn and helpless,
Thou cant make me whole.
There is none in heaven,
Nor on earth like Thee;
Thou hast died for sinners,
Therefore, Lord, for me.”