Emotions

Lately, I have been struggling emotionally. In fact, I have been struggling with my emotions for as long as I can remember. A lot of it has to do with not wanting to accept who I am as an individual. I often want to experience life without any emotional upheaval at all. The main reason being that I am often a slave to how I feel at times and I hate it. I am far to sensitive and yet God will never change this aspect of my personality. What he does ask me to do is to give it over to him. Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. (Psalm 62:8). It is the release that God requires. Or should I say suggests. He knows that through my sharing with him these feelings things can only improve. That doesn't mean I will necessarily feel better but it is a process of liberation that will help me in the long run. Ultimately, spending time with Jesus Christ is the ultimate form of therapy. My mood actually stabilizes when I spend time with him, his people, and his word. It is a simple truth but it is real, he is my shelter from the storm of my emotions (Psalm 17:8). Without an intimate relationship with him I often look to people or things to ease the pain of my troubled heart. It doesn't work. Christ alone is that balm for my soul. In him alone resides the healing for the brokenhearted (Isaiah 61). It is only the maker of heaven and earth that can fix us. Thank God !