Gut feeling

"Go with your gut", "what is your gut telling you"
These are phrases used by people often to tell us to listen to our "gut feeling" but what if that feeling is actually the Holy Spirit and God prompting us to go in His direction.

Whenever we get an idea and/or need to make a decision which suggests a major life change we get a gut feel and this feeling generally tells us whether the change feels right or wrong. Could this be God sending the Holy Spirit to prompt us to walk the path God intended for us. Could this be God giving us a message that we actually can feel?

God said he will never forsake us and maybe it's His way to remind us, nudge us along. I know you going to ask but what about Non-Christians? They also get this gut feeling. True but consider this....

God is always knocking, asking us to let Him into our heart, our life, our love. He will keep knocking on the hearts of non-believers. What if He gives non-believers these gut feelings in the hope that they will come to realise that it is God knocking, reminding, nudging them to accept and follow Him.

Love, Hope and Faith are God's gifts given to us so we can love, give hope and have faith in Him and others. God talks to us using many different ways and people.

Maybe our gut feeling is one way God also tries to get us to reflect and look at our life and where we are going in life. If we are doing what God feels is right in our life. Maybe is just another way God is trying to give us a "reality check or wake up call".

I am not a theologian and might have perceived this very wrong but this has kept me thinking for a good while so I thought I would put it down in print. I just wonder if feelings like this are given to us by God, how many good opportunities, good direction and choices we might have missed. I wonder if my life would be different if I listened to the gut feeling especially if God created that feeling for a specific reason. 

Go with God because He is all the gut we need!