After all this, Job finally opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
Job 3:1
You don’t have to feel good to be godly. Everything in you might scream “Yuck!” Your emotions drag, your heart aches, and you feel like you can’t go on, but you have to push through and trust. You have to act like you don’t feel those things at all and just push on into action, doing what you’ve been called to do—love, serve, give, trust. In spite of how things look, your mind has to focus on what is true and honorable and commendable (see Phil. 4:8).
You can’t use your sadness as an excuse to be ungodly. Feelings lie and feelings manipulate, and if you let feelings be your guide, you’re gonna spend more time off track than on the road to success. So listen to what your feelings have to say, but if they’re bringing you down, like they did to Job when his trial first hit, then turn down the volume. You can acknowledge they are there, you can even mourn and grieve as Job did, but then say, “Even so, I’m moving on as if everything’s okay, because feelings aren’t my God.” When you act as if you feel good even when you don’t, something amazing happens: you start to feel good. It’s weird, but it happens. When you work at making what you know more important than how you feel, eventually your mind will be able to control your feelings and stop letting them control you. Then you’ll be free.
People who are controlled by their feelings are like waves on the ocean, blown by the wind and tossed around by the sea. Want stability? Then take your life back from your emotions.