Feelings & Self-Control Go Hand-in-Hand (TMF:1032)

Tuesday, January 01, 2019
Peace to Live By: Feelings & Self-Control Go Hand-in-Hand (TMF:1032) - Daniel Litton
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       Feelings and self-control often go hand-in-hand. When we let our feelings make decisions for us, we make incorrect decisions. However, when we follow what we know is right according to God’s Word and according to our hearts, we go the right way, and we have successes in life. We all know, at least if you’ll stop and think about it, that your emotions within you change frequently. You can be feeling a certain way about a specific thing, and then two-hours later be feeling a totally different way about it. So, we have to be careful not to follow our ‘feelings’ but stay firm on steady ground. James has told us the following: “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions” (James 4:1-4, ESV). We are to follow what we know is right and not sinful passions within us.