Friday, September 18, 2015

Getting a Grip on Your Emotions

Are you an emotional person? Do your feelings act like a roller-coaster, one minute up, the next minute down? Do you have trouble staying calm in the middle of the storm?

 If so, this blog post is for you. 

 

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 Emotions are a gift from God. God made us with emotions because He made us in His image. Do you know that God has emotions?

 Let’s take a look at some places in the Bible that prove that God has emotions:

  • First John 4:8 says God is Love.  Love usually, though not always, comes with feelings. 
  • Ephesians 4:30 reveals that we can hurt Holy Spirit’s feelings.
  • Exodus 34:14 tells us that God is a jealous God, meaning He wants us to worship only Him and no other god.
  • John 11:35 tells us that Jesus wept.
  • John 2:15 tells us that Jesus got angry and overturned the tables of the money-changers in the Temple.
Throughout the Scriptures, we find emotions ascribed to God. So, in and of themselves, emotions are good.  The problem with emotions, however, is that, unless they are under Holy Spirit’s control, they can really mess us up.

You see, most of us allow our emotions to get out of hand and to control us. When this happens, we become slaves to whatever mood we’re in. 

But God offers us a better way to deal with our emotions. That way is by putting our emotions under His control. When we do, we find that our emotions no longer control us; we control them by the power of Christ in us.

So often, people with emotional problems do not go to God. The world tells us to go first to a counselor when we have emotional problems. But God wants us to go to Him first. In John 14:26, the Bible calls Holy Spirit our “Counselor.”  What better counselor to go to than Holy Spirit?

Now, I’m not saying we should not go to a human counselor.  What I’m saying is to be sure the counselor is a person who is born again and who understands that you have a spirit as well as a mind.  Most counselors do not consider the spiritual dimension of a person when counseling. That is the reason results are limited and often not permanent.

To get a grip on your emotions, you need to give them to Jesus. In exchange, He will give you His peace and His joy, even in the midst of the most emotional times.
  
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