Powerful Emotions

Some reflections regarding the past 2 emotion-filled, messed up days.

God made women creatures who are deeply in touch with their emotions, and this He saw as GOOD. He designed women to be able to relate deeply at the emotional level, to be deeply compassionate, loving, kind, merciful etc.

However, SIN entered this world and turned our emotions upside down. Because of sin, emotions triggered by insecurity, hatred, anger, envy, anxiety etc. became the norm. In my own experience, when negativity emerges from within, I can be totally absorbed by the emotions which come along with it...

Over the past 2 days, I experienced how such emotions can be crippling...for a while, I was quite lost in them.

Thankfully, the Lord reminded me... "Mind over heart", "Truth over negative emotions". In Christ, in His Word, is where security, love, peace and hope can be found.

It's a discipline of the mind...

Powerful emotions can work for you (positive emotions) or against you (negative emotions).

Yet in all this, I have to recognise that only by His strength can I overcome.