Emotions and Convictions

I don’t know what came over me. I hate that emotions, instead of convictions, control me. Disgust seethes through me, and embarrassment. Shame. I realize that Satan can also take hold of that shame, to debilitate the hope out of me: to force me into isolation. But at the same time I think that embarrassment is a must. I need to be ashamed of myself, the Spirit in me looking with disappointment on my human nature raging its temper in immaturity. I must “put childish ways behind me” and replace with love. Do I want to grow? Then I must not feed this beast. The hardest and most necessary part of growth is now starving out my need for control. Be self-controlled. Col. 3. (not other-controlling). We must not let the horde of details that flirt for us to control them do not become an arsenal against the likeness of Christ within us.

 

Gal 5: So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not know what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.

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~ by emilieg on June 17, 2008.