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Introduction
Humans are a unique creation.
We are created with a certain quality apart from the rest of creation.
We have been created after the “image of God”, with certain faculties that allow us to relate and commune with Him.
Every faculty of humanity works with the other to make us who we are, and plays a part in our emotional health and regulation.
Having a basic understanding of how these three most basic faculties work together, and an understanding of how to care for these basic faculties will help in making sense of our emotions.
When the body is exhausted most of us would say we tend to be a bit more grumpy than usual.
Mental and emotional stress can affect the performance and well-being of the body.
There is also a certain truth to the statement “mind over matter”.
Humans have been known to push and discipline themselves to accomplish incredible tasks.
Using my running as an example.
Last week I shared about the connective tissue in my calves being knotted.
It hurt, but with the assurance from my ostheotherpist that it was nothing serious and some recommendations with how to treat it I have continued to run, and my pace has not been to far off my usual.
My “spirit” makes the decision, my “soul” falls in line emotionally, and my “body” moves and does its job.
Today we are going to focus on where the ultimate problem lies, for the reality is two of these faculties ultimately respond to the direction of one primary faculty.
Though care should be given to these others, the health of this one faculty above the others will set you on the path to proper emotional health.
Remember our conclusion last week, The “spirit” is the moral centre, the “soul” the expressive centre, and the “body” the physical centre.
The “body” senses, the “soul” feels, and the “spirit” decides.
To begin to understand our emotions we must understand that the confusion we struggle with is rooted in the “spirit”.
The health of the “spirit” has a tremendous impact on your emotional health.
Drawing from Catherine Haddow’s words which we read at last week:
“Through the lens of Scripture, emotions are a language which force us — and others — to pay attention and respond.
They provide invaluable communication about our inner selves and our true desires.
And these desires are determined by the loyalties of our heart.”
(Haddow, Catherine.
(2017).
Emotions: Mirrors of the Heart.
(pg.
16).
Leyland, England.
10Publishing.)
Jesus put it plainly as recorded in Matthew 6.
The root problem we face is misplaced loyalties.
Our loyalties are not centred on the wisdom from above that comes from the Creator, the one who designed us.
But upon wisdom drawn from a corrupt source, a disease stricken source.
Today we will see that It’s Complicated, because I am sick.
I am stricken with a disease that corrupts from my very core and hinders me from drawing upon the pure and peaceable wisdom that comes from my Creator the one who experiences perfect emotions.
Pray
When God created Adam and Eve the “spirit” within humanity was morally upright.
Ecclesiastes 7:29a — “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright...”
The “spirit” within humanity was created with no moral blemish, it was innocent in thought, word, and deed.
It was created without sin, but had the capacity for moral choice.
There was capacity for choosing wrong, and that innocent state changing.
At the time of creation Adam and Even only knew of goodness and righteousness, for everything they needed was provided for them by the good and righteous Creator God.
In this state of innocence was perfect harmony, peace, joy, and communion with the Creator.
It was simply pure innocence as can be seen by their unashamed nakedness.
What a place to be, but this state of innocence changed when Adam and Eve made the moral choice to step out of the will of the perfect Creator and take matters into their own hands.
Look at Genesis 3.
Read Genesis 3:6-10
From that point on humanity would no longer live in such innocence.
The original state, the innocent “spirit”, of humanity became corrupted they were no longer morally upright.
They, as Solomon concluded in Ecclesiastes 7:29 which we started quoting earlier:
Ecclesiastes 7:29b — “…but they have sought out many inventions.”
Humanity is sick with a disease that eats away and destroys the unique construction.
What white ants are to wood buildings, sin is to humanity.
Sin digs down deep into our “spirit” and takes hold of our lives, and this disease corrupts every area of life.
It corrupts “our thoughts, our behaviours, our desires, and our emotions”.
(Haddow, Catherine.
(2017).
Emotions: Mirrors of the Heart.
(pg.
20).
Leyland, England.
10Publishing.)
We are in a state of deathly decay, and if we are going to make sense of our emotions we must have an understanding of this disease and how it is destroying our lives.
What we will see through this message is not pretty, and by the end most of us I know will feel quite discouraged.
It will be brutally honest with the problem we face as humans.
I challenge you don’t quite on me, please stay with me, I promise it will get better even though it feels worse.
Diagnosis of the problem can sometimes be the hardest thing to go through, but once the problem is full understood a proper treatment plan can be administered bringing us along to recovery.
Turn to Romans 1, under the inspiration of the Spirit of God Paul writes in the latter part of the chapter that this disease if left untreated...
Perverts my Thoughts (vs.
21-23)
Read Romans 1:21-23
Perhaps you have heard of the phrase, “I think, therefore I am.”
There is some truth to that, remember one of our verses we looked at last week as we sought to understand the “spirit”:
Proverbs 23:7a — “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he...”
The mind is like a crowded street
Where phantom thoughts, like people, meet:
Some hard at work, some idle are,
Some stay at home, some wander far.
Some thoughts wield power that ever lives-
A power that inspiration gives,
While others dwell with us awhile,
Then pass, as transient as a smile.
Thus come and go these thoughts of Ours,
Some, perfume-laden as the flowers,
While others sear our lives with blight
And bring no pleasure or delight.
Our thinking lifts us to the stars,
Or seals our hearts with prison bars;
Confers on us both joy and strife,
For as we think we fashion life.—Daniel
Maurice Robins, in War Cry.
(retreived on 11 Oct 2018 from: http://moreillustrations.com/Illustrations/thoughts%201.html
The phrase “vain in their imaginations” carries that idea of worthless reasoning, and points to how deep this disease, called the sin nature, really goes.
To be human means you were created with the intellectual capacity to reason, but due to this debilitating disease this reasoning is easily perverted to draw the wrong conclusions.
Because the sin nature has corrupted the “spirit” we can easily come to the conclusion that darkness is light, and bitter is sweet.
Sin perverts our thoughts about God, about ourselves, and about others.
Our thoughts deceive us by drawing conclusions that are not really there or are not true.
Leaving us defeated or over confident.
I can’t see God so He must not exist.
Everything is going wrong in my life so God must not love me.
They are dressed very shabby they must be homeless or very poor.
That food dish looks hideous, so it must taste horrible.
I have been hurt by a church, so all churches must be bad.
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