Questions & Answers
by Editor(s)

The following is a response by Norman Grubb to a letter he received from someone pouring out their heart to him. It first appeared in the Sept/Oct, 1989 issue of The Intercessor.

Q: One thing I have definitely seen is that we don’t look to or rely on feelings for a verification of faith or of love from the Lord. Right? Basically your book spells it out. Faith--invisible, unexplainable, illogical. Faith. Wow! That is sobering, especially because my old life was based on feelings. Can you believe it? You probably can. One point I am not at all clear on is works. In my mind I understand the concept of works (law) versus faith and grace. But then I begin to feel deep down that I am not doing important things for (with) the lost souls of the world. But I don’t have a heart to preach to people because I know that turns 99.9% of them off.

A: What a great heart outpouring from you, dear. It delights and blesses me. Feelings, of course, are only external soul-body reactions open to all influences, like the waves of the sea responding to storms. But we (spirit expressing Him, the Spirit) are the unmovable sea. We learn to move back from all the soul-body assaults (which can be Satan’s cabbage patch moving us into our one sin of unbelief) into who we are–He as us. And then we "operate" by receptivity. But receptivity includes verbal affirming of our reception! The speaking of the word is faith in action.

Then where you say it sometimes bothers you on your apparent lack of the "doing" level-take such botherings as further soul-body invasions from the now outside negative source and move back to being, not doing, which means just being who you now are as He in the most mundane un-God-conscious condition. And the true doing is then what-ever next thing (including maybe doing nothing!) which is part of your present being! Wondering about your doing level means really slipping back to the unbelief of you being some kind of "self-you" apart from your real you-as-He you! All flows from being. That is why John so clearly saw in his gospel records that Jesus’ only responses in all those chapters were "Follow Me." "I am…I am." And then after Pentecost it is "Be Me!" Wow!