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| "When He's emotional nowadays, it's when His compassion overwhelms Him." |
Jesus laughed. He wept. He was angry. He was fearless. But amidst the storms both in the natural and in people, He remained one with God. This twists us. Because He was God (is God) but was (is) also man. But we must realize His emotions were not His guide.
The Spirit enabled Him to walk on water. The Spirit enables us to overcome natural odds. The Spirit also gave Him peace when His body was in agony. He had no fear right then. There is no fear in the Spirit (2 Timothy 1:7).
We're too flippant about the devil. Our emotions lead us astray. The Word does say he is defeated and we have authority over him. Yet that authority is not having a gazillion gallons of knowledge nor knowing how to command him to sit and stay. It isn't being angry and yelling at him.
If the Holy Spirit isn't yelling, then why are we? He has no need to yell. He is not red faced with His chest pushed out.
We talk about resisting the devil while not realizing we're listening to the devil. Jesus is as calm as a cucumber where the devil is concerned. When He's emotional nowadays, it's when His compassion overwhelms Him. He sees us and loves us all over again. But He is not shaking His head, nor waving His hands amidst a lecture. He isn't uber frustrated by our ignorance.
What? The whole world, every man and woman on it, is ignorant. There. I said it. We're all staring in a foggy mirror trying to read (1 Corinthians 13:12), and our patient, all-knowing God periodically tells us what we see. Then we take it and run and turn a chicken leg into prophecy, and because He's so kind, He laughs and fulfills things. But we were mostly wrong.
We must accept it and push forward.
Rule #1 of being a ball of emotions: LOVE EVERYONE. This is how we are to react to others. That guy you like? Love! That guy you don't? Love him too! The truth is if we are fighting to love someone then we haven't glimpsed even an nth of God's love. It's big-huge-big, as wide as the east from the west.
Rule #2 of being a ball of emotions: Give them to God. Don't feel guilty for having them, but don't react to them always either. Don't make excuses when you do. We are not to be emotionless but to have self control. The Holy Spirit is the most self controlled in the universe. I mean, He made the universe and will remake it with no effort.
Holy Spirit? Did you just blink? And there we’ll be, all brand new.
God’s way is to make things very good then to rest and enjoy them. This includes what will happen at the end of time. We should follow suit in our trust of Him and be at rest in our hearts, in our minds, in our relationships, in our bodies. We commit to rest and not pick up what Jesus has defeated and placed on the cross. We lean into the Holy Spirit who brings peace to all of our being, circumstances, and plannings.
And on that note, I’ll leave you with this saying I got from my mother: The God of peace sent the Prince of Peace with the gospel of peace to bring peace on earth, goodwill to men.
“Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited. She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs. She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth. She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance. Love never fails.” (1 Corinthians 13:4-8, Weymouth)
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23, BSB)
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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.suzannedwilliams.com
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