Even though it is vital that we not just know God’s truth in our heads but taste it in our lives, be careful to never let your feelings or experiences trump the authority of Scripture in your life (which is called “neoorthodoxy”).

If I have a vision of Jesus telling me to eat my daughter’s cat, I cannot believe both my vision and the Bible at the same time. I have to pick one over the other. Because Jesus already told His disicples in John 15:12, “This is My commandment that you love one another,” I’m going to reject the “vision” Jesus in favor of the Jesus who spoke through the Bible.

If I get a subjective impression that God’s Spirit is leading me to move to Africa, it would be the height of arrogance to trust that feeling alone, without searching to see if it counters any principles in Scripture or the advice of godly men and women whom God can use to provide wisdom.

For all I know, that subjective impression could be manufactured by Satan himself appearing as an angel of light (2 Cor 11:14). Many have slid over the edge of neoorthodoxy, reading their subjective impressions into the text of Scripture until they make Scripture mean whatever they want it to be, which is another version of human autonomy, and ultimately butchers God’s original intention through the human author. Peter himself declared that his own experience as an apostle was less sure than the Word of God (2 Pet 1:16-21).