Are emotions leading your life?

God gave us emotions! Being able to feel deeply is a uniquely Human reality!

And I’m so thankful for them! Being able to feel a deep and beautiful emotion of love for my wife and children, and deep feelings of gratitude for my friends and church community. It also allows me to feel deep anger towards things that are evil and abusive.

But, the key is that we see emotions as an enhancement to our lives but not the leader of our lives. We must see that our feelings are not always reality but how we’re interpreting it.

We know that our emotions follow our thoughts and the Bible teaches us to take every thought captive.

So, are we taking thoughts captive or are our thoughts holding us hostage?

Are we a ball of uncontrolled emotions that create storms in our world?

Emotions can leads down to the depths of depression or to outbreaks of hysteria.

But, as sons and daughters of God, we must learn to lead our emotions and thoughts rather than being led by them.

Take some honest inventory of your life…. WHO IS LEADING? Is God and His Word or are your emotions of fear, anger, insecurity and the like leading you to destruction?

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