A Renovation of Emotions

Emotions are normal.

Genesis 1:27 ESV So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

John 11:33-40 ESV When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?” Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

Jesus didn’t just solve the problem. He entered into their grief with empathy, care, compassion—with EMOTION.

“God doesn’t hush us. He hears us.” — Israel and Sonia Piotter

Proverbs 18:10 ESV From the fruit of a man’s mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.