Your daily dose of true beauty advice…
Feelings aren’t wrong; they’re not sinful inherently, but they can be very deceiving. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t have to counsel my own emotions, because my emotions would invariably lead me to think and to do things that are not consistent with the Word of God. So I have to become disciplined about my emotions.
It’s one thing to discipline our bodies; it’s another thing to discipline our minds. But it’s tough to say to our emotions, “You are not going to run my life.” What I feel may be: I didn’t have enough sleep the last several nights, or I’m at a season of life or a time of the month or whatever where my emotions can run loose. We have to be very disciplined about them.
But I do believe that the same thing that sanctifies our minds, the Word of God, is also what sanctifies our emotions. It’s a process. It doesn’t happen with a six-week stint with a counselor, in and of itself. It’s not just sitting in church on Sunday morning and hearing the Word. It’s a commitment to day in, day out washing of my whole being with the Word of God.
The Word: it heals, it cleanses, it renews.
~Nancy Leigh DeMoss in “Knowing vs. Feeling“
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