God Wants Our Emotions Too






















"I don't want to talk about You

Like You're not in the room
I want to look right at You
...
You won't relent until You, have it all
My heart is Yours"
-Jesus Culture

This past week I heard these song lyrics for the first time in a long time. I first heard these lyrics over five years ago as a freshman in high school. These were not just any lyrics though. They brought me to my knees crying out to God. I had never come to God crying; I never thought God cared about emotions. I can't even wrap my heart around all the reasons I was crying, but this was the first of many emotional encounters with Jesus. 

Why is this even important? It is important to me because it was a special time I had with God and this week I learned about giving God my emotions. I learned that emotions are important and God cares about them just as much as I do. There are so many emotions and God created them all. 

This week I found myself in tears and super choked up over the wildest things. I found myself crying sad and happy tears, sometimes both at the same time. I even found myself crying over something I should have cried about three years ago. I do not know why I was so overcome by emotion. 

Giving God ALL of us is the camp theme for the summer. I realized that also means giving God all our emotions. God wants us to come to him when we are happy, sad, angry, bitter, every emotion. God wants us no matter how we feel and wants us to come to HIM in every state of mind. 

It is so easy to go to someone else when we are upset. I run to my mom when anything happens. If someone or something upsets me I call my mom almost instantly. If I am crying because I


am hurting inside I call my mom. My mom is definitely super woman, but God wants me to come to him. 

Giving God my ALL means giving HIM emotions too!

This is something I am learning and working on. I want to encourage you to try this too. 


P.S  No Matter what, I want to encourage, pray, and befriend you. I am on social media as @406_jourd on Instagram and @jourdynMack101 on Twitter, give me a follow and feel free to DM me anytime. If you ever need prayer or someone to talk to email me, jourdynpuppies@gmail.com, don't laugh it is from fourth grade and I stuck with it. 

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