We have a chief priest who is able to sympathize with our weaknesses. He was tempted in every way that we are, but he didn’t sin.
Hebrews 4:15
S inful feelings don’t have to lead to sinful actions. When you feel angry, bitter, resentful, or any other bad emotion, you don’t have to act on it. When it first comes into your heart, it’s a temptation. It is attempting to get you to do something so that it can be satisfied. Someone has offended you and so your emotion wants vengeance—a smart remark, a bitter response, something to hurt the other person as badly as you’ve been hurt. But this feeling of revenge is a part of your sinful nature, not your spirit. No matter what you’re feeling, you can’t let it control your spirit.
How many times has someone hurt you and your immediate response has come from your emotional aches instead of God’s Word? At that point your emotions are your Bible, the word you live by. And this word is destined to hurt. Not only that, but it sets itself up as a little god, demanding you do what it wants so that it can be satisfied. But satisfaction is never the result, is it? When you take what belongs to God, like vengeance, you’re in for heartache.
At whatever point that your emotions dictate sin in your life, they need to be shut down. Just because you feel it doesn’t make it right. And denying your nasty, sinful, and childish decisions isn’t bad for you; it’s good and right. As a God Girl you can’t let the lie that you should obey your feelings be a natural part of your life. When you made Jesus Lord of your life, you were set free from the bondage of emotions, and now you have the ability deep within you to say no to their sinful wishes and to put them under the power of your will. The God Girl has been given a new code, a new wiring that gives her freedom from negative feelings, and she learns it through the training of her mind and her will in the classroom of God’s Word.