Many of us deny our emotions. We deny our pain only so we can appear “unbothered.” But you are bothered by many things and that is okay. We were created by an emotional God who feels. He feels love, pain, compassion, and sometimes He feels anger, so why do many of us shame ourselves for feeling anything other than happiness and feeling “unbothered?”
When we deny our emotions, we deny ourselves of being human. We deny the part that makes us who we are. Man or woman, that is not how God created you and me to be. He created us to be emotional beings, but it is important to note He also intended for us to grow and learn how to control our emotions. Imagine how life would be if God did not control His emotions. It is important for you to learn how to control what you feel inside whether it is good or bad.
Why We Must Control Our Emotions
Sometimes we experience negative emotions that can lead us down the wrong path if they are not controlled. We may feel anger towards someone we love. And sometimes we allow that anger to consume us, outweighing our love for that person. This causes us to say and do hurtful things when we are not in control of our anger. We can avoid situations like this and handle things better if we manage our emotions. This can potentially lead us to losing or damaging a healthy relationship if we choose not to.
Sometimes we may even feel positive emotions such as love or excitement and still go down the wrong path if we do not manage those feelings. Sometimes people allow love or excitement to cloud their judgment. This can lead to doing things outside of God’s will. For example, someone having sex with their partner before marriage because they love them. Or someone hopping into a relationship heart first, head last. Everyone wants to feel good, and sometimes that good feeling is so overwhelming we throw logic out of the window. This is how some people end up in unhealthy relationships with a person that makes them “feel good.”
Another example is people making decisions based on pure excitement and no logic, e.g., someone who constantly spends money they do not have because they are feeling good –YOLO. There are potential consequences when we make decisions based on emotions alone. That is why we must learn to control them.
Here are a few Scriptures you can study that prove God is emotional.
Compassion
Deuteronomy 32:36
36 For the Lord will judge His people, And He will have compassion on His servants.
Judges 2:18
18 And when the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.
Exodus 33:19
19 Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
Sorrow
Genesis 6:5-6
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
I Samuel 15:10-11
10 Now the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying, 11 “I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.
Psalm 78:40
40 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert!
Love
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
1 John 4:8-11
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Jeremiah 31:3
3 The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
Hate
Proverbs 6:16
16 These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17 A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, 19 A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren.
Psalm 5:5
5 The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity.
Psalm 11:5
5 The Lord tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
Joy
Isaiah 62:5
5 For as a young man marries a virgin, So shall your sons marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So shall your God rejoice over you.
Zephaniah 3:17
17 The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Jealousy
Exodus 20:5
5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, …
Exodus 34:14
14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
Anger
Psalm 7:11
11 God is a righteous judge, a God who displays his wrath every day.
Romans 1:1818 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness
Love,
Jaz ❤️❤️❤️
Loving
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