“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Matthew 26:41
The world tells us, “Do what you feel!” Contrary, the Bible says that our hearts are
deceitful and that our flesh is weak.
Emotions are God given. They help
us to respond to life with happiness, sadness, fear, worry, excitement, joy,
etc. I vividly remember a time in my
life when my emotions dictated all of my choices--the way I felt is how I would
make my decisions. If I felt like I
wanted to purchase something I would do it.
If I was mad at someone I would react and let them know. If I had a fear about something it would
consume me and keep me from doing something or push me into doing something. My emotions were an impulse to my
actions. What I didn’t realize is that
my emotions were constantly changing—day to day and sometimes hour to hour. So, after making an emotional decision I
would often regret it or have wasted time and energy worrying.
I am continuing to learn that our emotions have great
purpose. However, without God’s Truth
and wisdom they can be futile. For every feeling there is God’s Truth to compare it
to. The Truth will set your emotions
straight. The Truth will validate or
invalidate your feelings. The Truth will
bring you peace or discontentment.
Prayer and letting time pass will allow your emotions to be indicators
and not dictators for your decisions.
“Among these we as well as you once lived and conducted
ourselves in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by our corrupt
and sensual nature], obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the
mind [our cravings dictated by our senses and our dark imaginings]. We were
then by nature children of [God’s] wrath and heirs of [His] indignation, like
the rest of mankind.”
Ephesians 2:3
Amplified Bible (AMP)
Warmly,
Jill
Warmly,
Jill
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