Everything feels like a mess.
I can’t control how I feel!
I just wish I didn’t feel this way.
Do any of those statements sound familiar?
If so, you’re not alone.
We’ve all been there.
What happens if they’ve started negatively affecting your relationships with family, friends, or coworkers, or your life seems stuck because you haven’t been able to stay motivated?
First, know that it’s perfectly normal to have feelings and to feel emotions.
God created positive emotions to help you:
But, negative emotions are a different story.
So, what can you do?
The Bible tells us how in 1 Thessalonians 5:23:
“May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
So, we see we need to sanctify our emotions and feelings , but what does that mean?
It means that we need to:
Now, we get to the point where you’re probably thinking: Sure, that’s just great, Gary. If I knew how to do all of that, I probably wouldn’t still be reading this.
I get it.
Maybe you know some of our story, but Drenda and I spent years on a roller coaster of ups and downs with our feelings and emotions.
For nine very long years, we lived hand-to-mouth—in what could only be described as financial chaos.
I couldn’t even afford a postage stamp at one point. For years, we could barely afford our rent of $300 a month on our falling-apart farmhouse that had weeds growing through its windows, let alone the upkeep on our two rusted-out, bent up, high mileage cars.
We had also racked up 10 maxed out credit cards, three finance company loans at interest rates of 28%, more than $13,000 owed in back taxes, more than $26,000 owed to relatives, and we had judgments and liens filed against us.
I battled almost constant feelings of fear, discontentment, and failure , and Drenda would fight feeling overwhelmed by and unhappy about our circumstances. She also feared that she’d appear weak if she shared her feelings with anyone.
Not only that, but I also felt physically sick during those days. ( You can imagine the added emotions and feelings Drenda was dealing with in trying to deal with me. )
You name the negative feeling and either Drenda or I probably had it—no, lived it—during those nine long years. We were both constantly fighting the downward spirals our emotions and feelings tried to take us on.
It felt like wishful thinking to think we’d ever have joy and peace.
What happened?
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