WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT EMOTIONS?
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
Anger, Lust, retaliation...all of these are a part of our human emotions that Jesus dealt with in Matthew 5:21-48. It is the senses of emotion that we have that causes us to differ from everyone else around us causing us to clash in relationships, and brings about jealousy, deceit, and competition between us to be the very best. Although we all may approach the same subject from different angles we asked by our Heavenly Father to be very careful to respect those more sensitive
areas between us. We all have things within our lives that we don't want the world to know about us, and we all have different issues to deal with in our hearts with the word of God. What becomes the great problem is when we try to hide something that we don't know or pretend to have some problem in hand that continues to eat away at us. Our emotions are also patterned after God's emotions; which means that anything we feel He also can feel. He knows how to curb His emotions so that He is in control of them at all times, while we on the other hand let our emotions rule our very thought pattern and our reaction to one another.
This is yet another thing that is not discussed within our churches much...but probably should be. What is it that triggers our emotions so much? Is it what we see others doing or and injustice we see someone else going through; or could it be the things we hear being said? No matter who we are we can be affected in a huge way by words. Words can literally make or break our day. I can be having a tremendous day until someone starts to continuously attack me with words. We cannot help but to have our emotions clouded over by negative words and thoughts. Some times I don't know how God has stayed His anger for so long at the ways we have treated both Him and one another. We will discuss the tongue a bit later, but the ideas of strife and anger can be traced back in great part to the things we say to one another.
The concept of love for one another cannot be over taught, and yet it cannot be the only thing taught either for us to grow faithfully in Christ. Dealing with our emotional difference is a huge part of being able to forgive, love and grow stronger together. How we deal with such things as comforting one another or lifting up one another in prayer becomes a great tool. Jesus spoke about edifying one another in the body, and when we really look at the kind of endurance race we run as Paul tells us we need to realize it is only to those who can finish the course set before them, and not to the most swift to win the prize. We have the time to stop; pick up another along the way who has fallen and cannot make it on their own and help them to cross that line with us! Unlike this world we cannot loose this race by helping another to go with us. We can only increase the number of people who will finish the course with us. There are no first second or third place victors in this race; only those who can finish the course altogether and press on to the end will see the Kingdom of Heaven. When we look at things in this light a completely different picture develops of what God's intention is for our lives.
The views we have of the emotions we share with God are just as different as is the race that we are all engaged in running. His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. We should take instruction from the Spirit off God who dwells within us on these things as we deal with our relationships with God, and our relationships with one another. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Anger, Lust, retaliation...all of these are a part of our human emotions that Jesus dealt with in Matthew 5:21-48. It is the senses of emotion that we have that causes us to differ from everyone else around us causing us to clash in relationships, and brings about jealousy, deceit, and competition between us to be the very best. Although we all may approach the same subject from different angles we asked by our Heavenly Father to be very careful to respect those more sensitive
areas between us. We all have things within our lives that we don't want the world to know about us, and we all have different issues to deal with in our hearts with the word of God. What becomes the great problem is when we try to hide something that we don't know or pretend to have some problem in hand that continues to eat away at us. Our emotions are also patterned after God's emotions; which means that anything we feel He also can feel. He knows how to curb His emotions so that He is in control of them at all times, while we on the other hand let our emotions rule our very thought pattern and our reaction to one another.This is yet another thing that is not discussed within our churches much...but probably should be. What is it that triggers our emotions so much? Is it what we see others doing or and injustice we see someone else going through; or could it be the things we hear being said? No matter who we are we can be affected in a huge way by words. Words can literally make or break our day. I can be having a tremendous day until someone starts to continuously attack me with words. We cannot help but to have our emotions clouded over by negative words and thoughts. Some times I don't know how God has stayed His anger for so long at the ways we have treated both Him and one another. We will discuss the tongue a bit later, but the ideas of strife and anger can be traced back in great part to the things we say to one another.
The concept of love for one another cannot be over taught, and yet it cannot be the only thing taught either for us to grow faithfully in Christ. Dealing with our emotional difference is a huge part of being able to forgive, love and grow stronger together. How we deal with such things as comforting one another or lifting up one another in prayer becomes a great tool. Jesus spoke about edifying one another in the body, and when we really look at the kind of endurance race we run as Paul tells us we need to realize it is only to those who can finish the course set before them, and not to the most swift to win the prize. We have the time to stop; pick up another along the way who has fallen and cannot make it on their own and help them to cross that line with us! Unlike this world we cannot loose this race by helping another to go with us. We can only increase the number of people who will finish the course with us. There are no first second or third place victors in this race; only those who can finish the course altogether and press on to the end will see the Kingdom of Heaven. When we look at things in this light a completely different picture develops of what God's intention is for our lives.
The views we have of the emotions we share with God are just as different as is the race that we are all engaged in running. His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. We should take instruction from the Spirit off God who dwells within us on these things as we deal with our relationships with God, and our relationships with one another. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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