Discussing Assurance - Frames & Feelings

Continuing our discussion of things that may cause a lack of assurance, this week we take a look at feelings & emotions. Particularly the notion that our assurance is based in having 'feelings'. Here's what Patton says:

"Living upon frames and feelings instead of upon the Person and promises of Christ.
Happy feelings are precious as fruits, but not good as grounds of confidence. We all like to have them. But some persons seem to think that they cannot be Christians except they are always warm in prayer, and rolling in waves of religious emotion.

Now, this is not the case at all. “The Lord cannot always be trindling apples with me," said Samuel Rutherford.
"Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." (John 10: 29)

Here we must often walk by faith, and not by sight. Faith is believing what God says without seeing or feeling, simply because He says it.

"Just a moment ago I looked out of the window, and expected to see Slieve Cruib mountain, but I could not see it, because it was covered with a cloud. Still I am sure it is there, though I do not see it. This is walking by faith. At other times I look and see it there. This is walking by sight."

Once I heard a good man say: "This is what I am going to do - feeling or no feeling, joy or no joy, peace or no peace - I am going to depend upon Jesus and His finished work."
That is the way to have both feelings and assurance; not to think about feelings or assurance, but about Jesus.

There are two texts that have done me good a hundred times, and I like them because they are true whether I feel or not. If the devil suggests that we are not Christians, let us not argue the matter with him, but come with these two texts to Jesus, and say,
"Lord Jesus, I read that 'Christ died for the ungodly.' (Romans 5: 6) That is what I am – ungodly
- and Thou halt promised, 'Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.' (John 6: 37)
Lord, if I never came before, I come now; and Thou art bound and delighted to receive me; and if I never was converted before, I am now." I think that is the short and easy way of dealing with the devil."
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What would you say concerning 'feelings' & our looking to them for assurance?