What wrong ideas about God have we brought into our relationship with Him?

  An example might be needed here - how about Jonah - he believed that God ought to totally destroy the pagans who lived so violently.  Even after he preached an amazing call and there was revival, he went up a mountain and waited to see the people destroyed.  He just did not get God - remember, he ran away from God before this all happened.

Os Guinnes wrote a book called, God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt. There is a paragraph on page 134 where he states something interesting about this very topic:

“Mistaken teaching spawns a view of faith that is unbiblical, weak, and ineffective in combating doubts that come from a emotional source. The battle is lost before it begins. The understanding was not in control in time of faith, so it is not in control in time of doubt. The emotions were everything when faith was there, and now that doubt is there they are still everything. All that is different is that they have changed sides. But if emotions are really all that matters, then neither faith nor doubt have anything to do with truth; they are simply the names that we give to their changing moods.”

This is good because once we understand that feelings are vital but not foundational then we delight in God’s truth and can endure the temporariness of felt distance.

It is like feeling is more as a person walking alongside you, always held in the clasp of your knowledge