Nowadays, in our culture and society, I think emotions and truths about reality are things that we tend to mix up. Personally, my answer to this question is no. Sometimes I think my emotions lie to me. The may be true to me but not true to all. Sometimes I can allow them to steal my joy and hinder clarity. That is simply my mindset as I go into asking these people this question. And quite honestly, most of them only had a way of perfectly articulating ways that I feel about the subject in a way that I could never think up on my own. Allow me to start by quoting some of these ladies, better known as my hall mates.
"I can feel that someone hates me and they still love me. So it kind of depends on how you're defining truth." - Emma Robins
"No because we act hastily." - Katie Trapani
"Feelings change...sometimes they're not based on what is right." -Lauren Gill
"[Feelings are] based upon situations and people...so it can be truth but doesn't mean it always is."
- Carley Schaffer
"I think you're feelings are always true because they're your feelings...but thats not always universal."
- Emily Cole
"I always question if what I'm doing is right or wrong, or if my feelings are valid. I based them on what is happening in the world around me." -Rachael Ritchie
"Sometimes my feelings are a misrepresentation of what is actually happening." -Michelle Lister
"When we have negative feelings towards others they're not true. They are just Satan tempting us. So definitely not all of our feelings are truth, some are godly and some are not." - Kim Trautman
"I think what I feel is true but sometimes how you feel is not the truth to the situation."
- Shayna Bickford
Everything that these ladies had to say held grains of truth for me. How we feel is true for us, but that doesn't make it truth for reality. I like how John Piper says it,
"My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives."
Therefore, maybe next time you feel a certain way, bad or good, you can ask yourself if its just true to you or truth to all.
Question this week: What advice would you give to a newborn child?
