To live by faith..not feelings

"Take away the blessings and live life to gain satisfaction of even the noblest human desires and eventually you’ll find yourself moving away from God . . . The real battle in the human soul that knows Jesus is not to find a way to feel now what we long to feel in our inmost being, whether it’s love, meaning, or the satisfaction of living an other-centered life in the service of a cause greater than oneself. The real battle is to continue on in faithfulness even when faithfulness brings no immediate experience of joy, even when it brings no prospect of felt joy until heaven. That’s what it means to live by faith. . . . the spiritual battle is between the demand for felt satisfaction and the life of faith."