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You Are Not Your Feelings: Finding Emotional Maturity
Our culture encourages us to trust our feelings above almost everything else. But what if our feelings aren’t telling us the whole truth? Drawing on Scripture, Viktor Frankl, Arthur C. Brooks and the example of Jesus, this article explores what emotional maturity looks like and why followers of Jesus can acknowledge every feeling honestly without allowing those feelings to become their master.
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Unfortunately it seems to be the difficult stuff in life that produces the growth.
Do you ever feel like your whole world is being turned upside down? I think most of us go through periods of our lives when it feels like everything that was once stable and predictable is all of a sudden shifting and scary. Life has been a bit that way for me over the past 12 months. It’s really helpful for me to realise that just because it feels like everything is been shaken, its entirely possible that its actually still o.k. God doesn’t promise to give us an easy life, in fact quite the opposite. The other day I was reading the book of Hebrews in the Message and…
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