Feelings Con't

It is okay to feel.

It is okay to feel happy. I feel happy being around the people I like, and it helps build our friendships. Happiness adds a little beauty into the scary and hurtful world that we live in.

It is okay to feel sadness. It is okay to feel sad when a girl rejects you. Even more so when you learn your child has died in an accident, or you get that phone call that tells you your mom has cancer, or your dad had a heart attack. I DARE someone to tell me that feeling sad means my faith or trust in God is not enough.

It is okay to feel anger. I get angry when I hear that missionaries are slaughtered all over the world, almost every day. I get angry when I learn about sex trafficking, or realize how many children are being abandoned in other countries and in the states.

It might not be a good idea to feel infatuated all the time...just saying. But in of itself there isn't anything wrong.

It is what you do with your feelings that matters. Anger can lead to hatred. Sorrow can lead to bitterness. Happiness can lead to idolatry. Infatuation can lead to lust.

These are gifts from God that tells us we are alive and made in the image of Him above. But do we use feelings to glorify Him, or do we use them to glorify ourselves? Let our identity be in Christ, and not in our feelings.

“Don’t bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior.” -C.S. Lewis