Emotions

Last night I was at 't Schuurtje. It's an old garage which we re-decorated. I go there every Monday to meet friends and do bible study and discussion.



The topic last night was Emotions. Are you in control of your emotions or are you a victim of your emotions? Are your emotions in line with how Jesus would react?

I think you can't really help your initial emotion when things happen. But you can change the way you cope with your emotions. Is it a bad thing to be angry at someone who hurt you? Not neccessarily, it just depends on if you try to forgive or keep a grudge. We can't control our initial emotions but we can control how we deal with them. We need to try to get our emotions in line with what Jesus told us to do. If you try to be concious about that you will learn to develop a second nature of reacting the way we're supposed to.

The nice thing about this is that, eventhough it seems to be rules that are annoying and frustrating, it is actually set up as a manual to be the best you can be. If we don't keep to the manual we will breake (e.g. anger will just eat you up inside, you keep yourself hostage). But if we use our lives in the way the manual says, we really get to grow and rise above and be free to be who God made us to be.

Okay, this was just a thought I needed to share. Hope it helps someone :)