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Make sure you're strong. Actual strong, not hard. Hard is brittle. Hard breaks.
Process the emotions, deal with them, don't sweep them under the carpet. Hey! It's okay to cry a little. It's okay. Jesus wept. Remember?
Yes. Life has nothing to do with feelings. But part of guarding your heart with all diligence is not subjecting it to an overload of unpleasant, un-dealt with hurt and other negative emotions. I'm not saying be a weakling, but I'm also saying, stop playing Chester.
When Jesus was saying "if it were up to me, this cup would pass me by..." do you think He was being spiritual? No! That was deeply emotional, the Lord allowed Himself to feel. Yet you outchea acting like feeling is for sissies. Allow yourself to feel... I don't think Jesus was necessarily smiling when He said that. The bible says it was in agony. So child, allow yourself to cry and sob and whatever...
But just don't sit there and feel sorry for yourself forever. Learn from Jesus. He said; "Nevertheless, not my will but your will." In other words, "this is How I feel but God's word has the final say." Likewise, don't run away from your feelings. Admit them. But subject them to God's will.
For the longest time my slogan was; Life has nothing to do with feelings. But i am changing it to; My feelings are subject to the word of God. So yes, I do feel. But the word of God has the preeminence over how I feel.
It took my great aunt's passing, to realise that I had dealt cowardly with myself my whole life. I decieved myself into thinking i was strong. But i wasn't. I slept off how i felt, I never confronted myself or my feelings. On the surface, I seemed to be keeping it together, but i was just wearing make up over bruises and open wounds.
There's a fine line between hard and strong. And I, was just hardened. I would eventually break.
A loved one died? Yes they were born again and are in a better place but you realise you ain't gonna see them again(well, atleast not in this body) and it's making you feel sad? It's okay to cry. You feeling a bit insecure because your hips ain't wide enough or you feel your face ain't pretty enough? Admit it. Then find a scripture and counter the already processed feeling.
How God created man with a soul (and one of the components of the soul is emotions)was on purpose, if we didn't need them, he wouldn't have put them there.
Learn from Jesus. Don't kill yourself with pretence strength.
As they would say it in Nigeria, Don't come and kill yourself. Jesus already died. He's not asking you to die again

Comments

  • πŸ‘ I will stay strong, no matter what dead ends throw at meπŸ’€

    May 25, 2020

  • May 25, 2020

  • Nice poem.

    May 25, 2020

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