“That Gut Feeling”

“You shouldn’t go to that party tonight.”

Have you ever had that kind of experience?  When you are trying to decide where to go for the night and you come upon an invitation to a party in a nice part of town, but you get an uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach.

A lot of the people you see in movies who hesitate to do something or go somewhere but get talked into overriding that feeling only to end up dead or in a bad situation, yet many of us try to test this feeling and see if we are “just over thinking it” or being a “coward” and so on. 

Why is it that we try to test our “gut feelings” when it usually leans on the side of being in a safer situation??

I personally don’t believe our “gut feeling” is just our bodies on it’s own reacting to something, I believe it’s the Holy Spirit trying to warn us, even those who are saved or have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Just because you don’t believe in God doesn’t mean He doesn’t love or care for you; He wants ALL of us to stay out of harm’s way whether it be a potential emotional problem or physical issue planning to approach. 

I have had MANY experiences with being in a position to go somewhere or do something while in High School that lead to me having an instantaneous feeling of uneasy, I acted on that feeling. In the end, it kept me from getting involved in a compromising situation and leading am unfulfilling lifestyle that a lot of my former friends are currently leading who didn’t act on those same warnings when situations arose.

I can’t say that everyone experiences the exact same type of physical feeling in their body, but I know that there are more people of are aware of these warnings and still go against them only to look back at the situation wishing that they didn’t ignore that feeling.

It’s up to you to heed the warnings….