Hi guys and gals...
(I've seriously been using the phase way too much... ><)

How fitting that on day 3 of our 40 days of Love devotional, we talked about loving God with all our heart, that today we should talk about how feelings are important.
How fitting it is that I should be blogging on the topic of emotions.

Being a sporty person, being passionate about football (or known to yankees as soccer), I understand how emotions can sometimes overrule the head on the rectangular field. 1 split second, you could be sent off for an offence that other people who saw it would be thinking... why did he do that?

So, does this mean that we should not have any emotions or feelings in our daily lives, or what we do?
NO!

Passion, similar to fire, is a bad master, but a good servant.
True enough, that anything, when used wrongly, can have bad results.
However, when it is directed in the right direction, it can be put into good use, and have positive purposes.
I can either drive you on, or drive you head-on into a collision. =P

Did you know that Christianity, unlike Hinduism and Buddhism, allows you to be aware of your feelings?
In other religions, it is said that when you devoid yourself of all feelings, only then would you be able to reach the next level.
However, in Christianity, we are not required to do so.
We are not urged to act as if we have no feelings.
Instead, God made us this way, with feelings.

How do we know that?

We are all created in the image of God, amen?
In today's devotional, it is known that Jesus wept when his friend Lazarus died.
Jesus wept when he approached Jerusalem before .
Thus we can see that, it's ok to have emotions. It is ok to show them, and not just conceal them behind closed doors.
Other people in the bible wept as well.
At Ziglag, David wept when he found out what had happened to his people.

So... next time just show it outwardly?
Not really.
It's what you do with your emotions that count.
On Pg 105 of the book, it says that

"Jesus did not deny his emotions; he denied himself by not always bowing to those emotions."

How true is this!
Many times, we just bow to our emotions. After we wept, we feel that the whole world has let us down, We feel that our lives can't move on anymore.

We shouldn't do that!

Instead, we should live our lives, with God's promises for us.
We should live our lives knowing that God has done great things in our lives.
We cannot control the things that will happen to us. What we can control is our response.

The same thing, when used differently, can bring about different results.
So, I courage you, to be lord over your feelings.
To know to do the correct things after things happen in your life. =)

I shall leave you with this verse in closing.

Proverbs 14:30 (The Message)
A sound mind makes for a robust body, but runaway emotions corrode the bones.