Emotional Wholeness

The Problem With Our Emotions

Pro 25:28
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

The problem with emotions is that they are joined to our wanting and therefore hold enormous power over the way we live. There is a symbiosis between our heart and our feelings, that is expressed by our wanting and our emotions. This lies at the center of who we are and has the potential of becoming the power center of our life; if we allow them, that wanting/feeling part of us, they will rule our thinking, our ambitions, our priorities, and our behavior. The Word of God is supposed to be the power center of our life.

All humans have a wanting nature. We want what we want even if what we want eventually destroys. We see this destructive way of living played out, again and again, everywhere. To be emotionally healthy we have to bring the wanting, feeling, part of us under the direction of the Word of God. We cannot allow ourselves to want or feel, that which is destructive. It is obvious we have to possess the power to choose the good while rejecting that which destroys. Ultimately, our heart is the issue. It wants and our emotions provide the feelings for that wanting. As we allow the Word of God to renew our heart and mind, then we find we can re-direct our wantings and our feelings toward wholesome and godly pursuits.

We all want real fulfillment and real meaning and if we look to people or things, then we have fallen into the trap of serving self, rather than serving God. God will nevers allow us to look to anything or anybody other than Himself for meaning and fulfillment; and in contrast, self will never look to Jesus Christ.

If we have not made a conscious decision to love God above our own wantings, then by default, we are left to a fleshly heart that partners with fleshly emotions ever looking for satisfaction and always in the wrong places.

We have been given all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Heaven gives its best, and if we cannot find fulfillment there, then we need to consider what it is we really want. If our lives are empty then we need to admit we are on the wrong road, and going in the wrong direction. In His presence is fullness of joy!

Christ is our Maker and the only One who can satisfy. We need to turn our eyes, heart, and emotions to Christ and what He has done for us. If our emotions and imaginations were honest they would tell us to find meaning and fulfillment in the redemptive victories of the Cross. Emotions are extremely deceptive and the healthy person has learned to renew their mind and emotions by the wonderful truths of Salvation. The healthy person learns to want the good things of the Gospel.

If we have never learned to direct our emotions with biblical truth, then we give Darkness an emotional foothold which will only lead us into more and more emptiness. Godly and healthy living is the goal, and the Word of God, not the satisfaction of fleshly wanting, is the source of wholesome living. Jesus prayed for His followers saying, sanctify them through Thy truth, Thy Word is truth.

Emotions have to be controlled if we are going to be emotionally and spiritually healthy. Dysfunctional emotions tend to be like delinquent children, they lie, they cheat, and they demand their own way. But the Word of God is more powerful, and if we renew our mind, our unruly emotions will become obedient to our new thoughts.

To be healthy we have to be in control of what we think and what we feel. God will help you, commit your mind and your thinking to the direction and wisdom of God's Word, He will help you!

God bless you.

Scripture

2Pe 1:2-10
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3) According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4) Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5) And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6) And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7) And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8) For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9) But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

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