[May 17, 2026] Wisdom and Emotions

Another thing why we need to have wisdom concerning our emotions is because God can't rule my life if my emotions are ruling my life. We want king Jesus on the throne of our hearts because he's he's the one who created us, who sustains us, who redeemed us. I want him ruling my heart, not my emotions. You feel me on that? Important. And lastly, if I want to manage my emotions, you know, wisely, why do I need to do that? Because if I don't manage them, we become vulnerable to attacks from the enemy. If I don't and you don't learn to manage your emotions, you become vulnerable to spiritual attacks from the evil one. [00:12:27] (46 seconds)  #JesusOnTheThrone

But we're created in the image of God. God has emotions. God expresses emotions, but he's the only one who expresses emotions without sin, without doing that wrong. The ability to feel emotions is a gift from God, being created in the image of God. So emotions make us human. Learning to manage our emotions makes us like Jesus who perfectly managed his emotions. So there's two extremes when you think of emotions. There's emotionalism, which everything is about our feelings. Been around a toddler lately? Everything is about feelings, happy, sad, mad, whatever. It's just a rollercoaster ride with with toddlers. [00:07:42] (49 seconds)  #EmotionsAreAGift

The first thing I would say is because our feelings are often unreliable. They're often unreliable. One moment, we're here, next moment, we're here. Something happens and our emotions just get all stirred up. Proverbs fourteen twelve, there is a way that seems right to a man or maybe feels right to a man, but its end is the way to death. Feelings are often wrong. They're often wrong. When I was in the ninth grade, I watched a Billy Graham crusade. That was in ninth grade. That was a long time ago. I watched a Billy Graham crusade. And as he gave the invitation to trust in Jesus, I did. [00:09:02] (44 seconds)  #FeelingsAreUnreliable

Do you feel me? We all do. Every single one of us needs to know how to manage our emotions regardless of how long we've lived or what season of life we're in. We tend to be too led by our emotions. And we let our emotions get the best of us in our relationships, in in our everyday life, and some of you when you drive. Just kidding. Well, not kidding, actually. Emotions in themselves are neither right nor wrong. Right? They are positive emotions that we experience, but there's also negative emotions that and I use the word negative in a loose sense because grief, sorrow, those are real emotions, [00:06:52] (45 seconds)  #EmotionsAreValid

So when you identify what you're feeling, go below the surface. For example, I'm angry. Okay? That's an easy one. I'm angry. Why are you angry? I'm angry. Why am I angry? You might be sad. You might be lonely. You might be hurt. You might be offended. Angry anger is a secondary emotion. It's not a primary emotion. It's comes from a root of something else that's going on in our life. So go below the surface. [00:15:17] (34 seconds)  #RootCauseNotAnger

What most people didn't know is that every Monday morning, Spurgeon would wake up depressed. He couldn't get out of bed. He's filled with anxiety. You probably can relate. You pour yourself out to serve to serve spiritually, and then all of a sudden, you're just your tank is empty. In modern vernacular, pastors call that Monday morning experience PMS, post ministry syndrome. You've poured yourself out on Sunday and if you don't have a time for a Sabbath or time to relax, it's easy to be be vulnerable to to those things. [00:16:06] (44 seconds)  #SabbathToRefuel

But about a month out, I would just wake up in the middle of the night and I'd go watch my kids sleep all creepy weird and watch them sleep. And just like, you know, I I I have this incredible feeling of sadness that would come over me. And this happened it got worse and worse every trip that I would go on, to where it literally incapacitated me. After I went from Denver to Chicago on a flight to London in the Chicago Airport, I was like, I can't do this. And the person I was with said, hey, if we need to go home, we'll go home. It was good to me. [00:18:54] (35 seconds)  #GriefCanReturn

How do we learn to manage our emotions? Identify what you're feeling and then challenge what you're feeling. Sometimes you gotta challenge what you're feeling. In Psalm 42 verse five, why my soul are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God for I will yet praise him, [00:21:39] (22 seconds)  #ChallengeYourFeelings