Emotions Don't have to lead to Entanglements
Ever wonder why people fall in and out of love, or why people overreact for seemingly no reason at all? Or why fear grips the literal life out of some people, or why people carry years and even decades of emotional baggage around form relationship to relationship, job to job, city to city?
Emotions!
Emotions don't have to lead to entanglements
An entanglement is described as a complicated or compromising relationship or situation We tend to make decisions based on how we feel - but where do these feelings come from?
Psychologists have determined, in essence, that emotional experiences are recognized by your thoughts. Your thoughts trigger a reaction of feelings based on what you think about that experience. Your feelings are then transferred through what we call emotions which are communicated through your actions, or lack thereof. Your actions become your character, Your character is who you are, and who you determine your destiny.
I once read a comment that suggested we be careful not to always believe what we think.
Now let that sink in for a minute...
As Christians, we are taught that we are made up of three parts,
- Our flesh, which is the outer shell
- Our soul, which is made up of our thoughts, will, and emotions
- And Our spirit, which is the image of God
As believers in Christ, we are to walk in the spirit and not in our flesh or emotions
Galatians 5:25 says:
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
My Story about Emotions:
I have often allowed my emotions to dictate the outcome of relationships, opportunities even responsibilities. I lacked confidence and was so used to giving my thoughts, my words and myself away, that I didn't realize how I was hindering my own path. I would often get in my feelings and allow the enemy’s voice to replay in my head of how it didn't really matter anyway.
Here is an excerpt from my journal:
Jun 16, 2015
“What is the purpose of thoughts? Sometimes I get lost in my own thoughts. What's the point? I think because a lot of times they are based on emotions which change with the wind, I go from one angle to another. The better question is why even bother communicating them at all?”
I found that many of the compromising situations I found myself in was due to hindering thought patterns. And the lack of progression in my life was caused by my own fear. I allowed my emotions to keep me in bondage. I was trapped in a shell and who I was meant to be was shrinking smaller and smaller.
As I called out to God, He started to give me dreams that He was drawing me closer to Him. I started to seek Him more and focus on the visions He was giving me. It took a while but I finally started to realize the plans He had for me. Reading His word, meditating on His promises and acknowledging His work in my life helped me see that God is for me and nothing can separate me from his love.
Romans 8:31-39 says:
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
My confidence is in Him who created me and the joy He gives is my strength. God has shown me time and time again not only who He is in me but who I am in him.
I want you to know, your self-worth doesn't come from the number of likes you get on a post, or whether that group of so-called friends or that certain someone accepts you, nor does it come from the job title or amount of money you make. Our creator and Lord have made you fearfully and wonderfully with an intended purpose in mind. Your self-worth comes from within - Be sure to let it shine! And remember, If JCANDO, so can you