Emotions

 By Patrick Weaver

It's not that you don't trust God...it's that emotions

don't trust God. I don't know about you but when

you've been through trauma, emotions have a

hard time trusting.

It is an absolute fact that a trembling nervous

system does not equal a broken faith.

Emotions are completely incapable of processing

the eternal. They are blind to the unseen. They

possess zero capacity for revelation. Your feelings

are a reaction to what is happening right in front of

your face. They look at the deficit, the betrayal, or

the crisis, and they panic because they only know

how to survive the immediate threat.

Stop expecting your emotions to act like they have insight. They don't.

You do not need your feelings to agree with truth

for truth to remain the truth. You can be terrified,

overwhelmed, and completely blind to the next

step, while simultaneously standing flat-footed on

the certainty that God is in control.

Acknowledge the panic, but strip it of its authority.

When your nervous system overheats, remember

that that's your temporary condition not your

permanent position. Use your tools, acknowledge

that's what's happening in your body is not what's 

happening in the spirit realm. I have to practice

daily letting the Holy Spirit run the ship, and let my 

feelings throw their fit in the back seat until they

learn to fall in line.

Have you ever had to tell your feelings to shut up

and sit down because God already gave you the

answer?