I Can’t Feel – Dwight Lyman Moody

“I can’t feel,” says one. That is the very last excuse. When a man comes with that excuse he is getting pretty near the Lord. We are having a body of men in England giving a new translation of the Scriptures. I think we should get them to put in a passage relating to feeling. With some people it is feel, feel, feel all the time. What kind of feeling have you got? Have you got a desire to be saved, have you got a desire to be present at the marriage supper? Suppose a gentleman asked me to dinner, I say, “I will see how I feel.” “Sick?” he might ask. No; it depends on how I feel.” That is not the question — it is whether I will accept the invitation or not. The question with us is, will we accept salvation — will you believe? There is not a word about feelings in the Scriptures. When you come to your end, and you know that in a few days you will be in the presence of the Judge of all the earth, you will remember this excuse about feelings. You will be saying, “I went up to the Tabernacle, I remember, and I felt very good, and before the meeting was over I felt very bad, and I didn’t feel I had the right kind of feeling to accept the invitation.” Satan will then say, “I made you feel so.” Suppose you build your hopes and fix yourself upon the Rock of Ages, the devil cannot come to you. Stand upon the Word of God and the waves of unbelief cannot touch you, the waves of persecution cannot assail you; the devil and all the fiends of hell cannot approach you if you only build your hopes upon God’s Word. Say, I will trust Him, though He slay me — I will take God at His word.