Why You Don’t Feel the Presence of God (And Why That’s NOT a Problem) | Sam Shamoun

How can we help you, Boomer? Hey, Sam. I am calling I don't know if you do general Christian advice. Well, I don't know. It depends. It depends on what advice it is. But before you do, what is your background? You're Christian then? Yeah, I grew up Southern Baptist from Texas. All my family is from Texas. But I've been

recently trying to get into the Orthodox Church. I'm visiting we have we have a local community here. Okay. Um and unfortunately my spiritual leader has been unable to answer my question. What is it? Let me see if I can I don't know. Let me see. It's not It's not a technical It's It's a very simple

question, which is I have been unable to feel the the the presence of any anything, right? Yeah. I have no logical reason Yeah. to You're talking about you feel nothing. Yes, that's my problem. Well, that's easy, brother. Brother, that's too easy. If you base it on feeling, you will not be successful in

anything you do in life. What do I mean? If you base it on feeling, your marriage will fail. Your friendships will share fail. You'll fail at every endeavor because you have to go beyond your feelings and do it as an act of discipline because the Christian life is described as discipline. You can't go by

feelings cuz you're going to then check out of every relationship. So, why are you waiting for what you feel when you're supposed to take God at his word? Trust what he says, not go by how you feel. So, this is what a relationship is and what trusting God looks like. Trusting God means you take him at his

word no matter how you feel. So, you ready? Ready. All right, cuz it sounds like you're [snorts] coming in and out. Do you not know 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 that all those who run in a race run but one receives the prize? So, did you see how the Christian life is being described as