Cleaning out regardless of feelings

I don't like to talk about or share feelings often. They change so often and are unreliable. Yet the fact remains that so many people are motivated and driven by feelings and emotions. I certainly admit that it is much easier to do things when motivated by emotion and passion, yet these feelings are not always there when things need to get done. Imagine all the jobs that would not get done if waiting on a good feeling or passion for the job. Most of us would never clean (some of us still do not often.) I know there are some weird people who actually love to clean, but when was the last time you took out the garbage, or cleaned out the gutters for the joys of the job? How about the doctors? Who loves to go get a prostate exam or mammogram done for the good time? Then comes work, which by its fallen nature is hard and grueling. In short, we do many things out of need, duty, or devotion.
Our walk in Christ is going to be much like the things above. We should certainly praise Him when we feel His presence and are experiencing his blessings. But his praise worthiness does not diminish when we are cleaning out our heart of junk we accumulate. Nor does it change when are examined by the Holy Spirit. There are things we must do as discilpes of Christ, that will not always be joyous, but accompany the work we are called to do as followers.
Before you "Amen," this thought, remember what happens when the Lord examines our hearts. He finds sin, disloyalty, and sometimes apathy. You may have a laundry list of habits, ideas, and things the Jesus has delivered you from already, but there is always more. The further we go in this process, the more we need God to cut things out, and cutting hurts. Yet this is why the scriptures are referred to as sharper than a two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12). God uses His Word to shine a light on the attitudes, doubts, relationships, and sin in our hearts, and then expertly uses this two-edged sword as a scalpel to remove them from our lives.
Have you had spiritual surgery lately? Do you need to pray and ask the Lord to cut something from your life? Remember He only prunes and disciplines those He loves.
"For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12
"Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit." John 15:3