J. Alasdair Groves

Winston T. Smith

How do you feel about how you feel? Our emotions are complex. Some of us seem able to ignore our feelings, while others feel controlled by them. But most of us would admit that we don’t always know what to do with how we feel. The Bible teaches us that our emotions are an indispensable part of what makes us human—and play a crucial role in our relationships with God and others. Exploring how God designed emotions for our good, this book shows us how to properly engage with our emotions—even the more difficult ones like fear, anger, shame, guilt, and sorrow—so we can better understand what they reveal about our hearts and handle them wisely in everyday moments.

Untangling Emotions

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What you care about shapes what you feel. Your emotions are always expressing the things you love, value, and treasure, whether you understand them or not.

Sharing in the experiences of others is fundamental to the very nature of love. Paul writes in Romans 12:9, "Let love be genuine" and then follows that with a laundry list of the many ways genuine love is expressed in re- lationships. He describes one of those ways in verse 15: "Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep." In other words, one of the ways sincere love is shared is by emotionally entering into the experience of others. 

This motivational aspect of our emotions is God's way of helping us put our values into action.

Godly joy and godly distress both reflect godly worship. 

The bottom line is this: mixed emotions are the right response to a mixed world. 

Thus, your emotions at any moment are a mix of your responses to everything around you! 

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