Dealing with Emotions...

 

Don't you just love this quote?

 

Emotions...feelings...thoughts...they are all the same. They are there! Especially as women, we tend to struggle with our emotions, feelings constantly.

 

If we are to really analyze our emotions and feelings, I wonder how many times they would prove true.

 

One of my most terrible weaknesses is succumbing to these emotions that I shouldn't...I surf the wrong waves! :) Have you ever had one of the those days when you were so overcome with a multitude of different emotions, feelings, and thoughts that you just wanted to cry out, "Stop!" "I don't want to feel everything that I feel" "I want to be this way not this way!"

 

As we study our Bibles, in all reality, the choice is ours. The choice to surf the right wave with the Lord's help. There are days when it is extremely hard and sometimes unbearable...like Paul...

 

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? ~Romans 7:15-24

 

Some days, I know what is right and true, but my emotions, the fleshly carnal me, is in control, and I end up feeling, thinking those things that I shouldn't.

 

But like Paul...

 

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. vs. 25

 

There are days that I fail so completely it is pitiful, but I'm learning daily. I'm learning like it says in Proverbs...

 

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. ~ Proverbs 25:28

As I have no control over my emotions, I'm letting myself be open to all kinds of attacks. The enemy know this is where he can hit us. He implants these wrong emotions, feelings, and thoughts...we run with them...we've left the gate wide open for him to attack us and our families. Our homes dears ladies are controlled by our emotions...what our outlook on life is...it is the determining factor as to how happy our home is...if that makes sense? In other words..."if mama ain't happy, nobody ain't happy!"

 

I don't know about you, but I want happy children! I want a happy husband! I want my home to smile! Even the world realizes this,

 

 

...Babies born to mothers who are depressed may also be less active, show less attention and are more irritable and agitated than babies born to moms who are not depressed... ~American Pregnancy

 

 

Ladies, our children need happy homes...mama's that love them all the time... here are some verses to help you and me today:

 

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 



2 Corinthian 10:5

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Philippians 4:6-9

We have all these verses to help us, but without the Lord we surely can not do this! Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Today, I can feel the right things...I can think the right things...I can have the rights emotions...I can overcome...why? because Jesus is right there helping me! and YOU can too!