The coffee is made, the reading plan is open, and the whole thing feels like cardboard. You check your feelings the way you check a dead phone for a signal bar, and they have nothing for you.

Paul does not send you back to the feelings. The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God. A witness on the stand, deeper than your mood, and he does not change his story. Your assurance was never supposed to run on emotional weather.

Anchored in Romans 8:16. Part of a verse-by-verse season through the interior-life chapter of the New Testament.