Emotions: Invisible but real
Purpose of Emotions
Emotions reflect and express the inner man, the heart, the soul, the mind
“God gives emotions for a specific purpose. They are necessary for us properly to know and relate to and glorify God.”11
The Beach Ball
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We try to stop thoughts, but that's impossible. It's like trying to constantly hold an enormous inflatable beach ball under the water, but it keeps popping up in front of our faces. We can allow the ball to float around us, just letting it be. So rather than stop the thoughts, we can stop fighting them, and let them be, without reacting to them. (Vivyan 2009) |
God's Emotions
God’s emotivity is His supreme capacity to act responsively and sensationally; to feel pure and principled affections of love and hate, joy and grief, pleasure and anger, and peace; in accord with His supreme, spiritual, and simple Being and impeccable virtue.4
- Love
- Hate
- Joy
- Grief
- Pleasure
- Anger
- Peace
“God’s emotions are always in line with His holiness and moral character. God’s emotions are always correct, righteous and moral because He is always correct, righteous and moral.”5
Jesus perfect human emotions
God's word has emotions
God communicates with passion and emotion in his Word, and such communication is designed to make us respond in like manner.