“If you put your faith in your experience anything that happens–toothache, indigestion, an east wind, incongenial work–is likely to upset the experience, but nothing that happens can ever upset God or the almighty reality of the Redemption; once based on that, you are as eternally sure as God Himself” (Oswald Chambers, Run Today’s Race).

The problem that people get into is that they want to interpret God and His word through their experiences instead of the other way around. But the problem with experiences is that how you view them is based on what you’re feeling or how much sleep you’ve had recently. So many factors can skew how you view your experiences.

It’s a lot like building your house on sand. If you live based off of emotions and experiences, you’re like that shifting sand that never settles. But once you put your house on the firm foundation of God’s unchanging truths as revealed in His word, then you’re rock solid and rock steady.

As the old saying goes, what you think and what you feel can lie to you and what you experience is based on your very limited perspective on the world. But God is eternally sure and secure, as are those who hope in Him and live their lives on His word.