We've Always Been Emotional; It's Okay
We are born as individuals impacted and crafted by our environments. From a young age, we learn how to respond out of need and hurt. When we babies cry, they are giving off signs of discontentment so that, hopefully, someone will fix whatever is affecting them.
Today looks a lot similar to day one.
When conflict happens, crying may not always be a result, but isn’t some kind of emotion?
We hope to conceal our emotions which reveal problems but, when we do, aren’t those the times when we feel the most exposed?
We try to be composed but then sadness, anger, or bitterness just happen to bleed out of us.
At times it feels quite incontrollable. And when it feels out of our hands, we get even more upset or angry that we can’t control how we feel.
Can anyone relate? (imagines everyone’s hand raised)
I think we have taken a wrong approach to these emotions though. If we have actually been feeling, living, and operating this way our entire life- perhaps it’s not a curse or something to extinguish like we have thought.
Most likely, there is just something we are supposed to have in the midst of these following-emotions.
And I think it has a lot to do with trust.
It’s easy to think that difficult things need to be done away with, but truly they need be embraced.
Our emotions give us a way to trust God even when we are being told oppositely.
Without emotions, love would have no feeling, joy would be inexpressible, hope would be tearless, fun would be without laughter.
Emotions are not our enemy, trust is just our helper.
When we walk with God and let trust root us in the wind of emotions, we will see fruit that no puny tree could ever produce.
Trusting God has already been determined, it’s not our feelings that evaluate our trust. Even though they may be extreme, they are not the authority.