Where do our feelings come from?

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. Philippians 4:8 (NASB).

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2 (NASB)

Have you ever gone to a scary movie? While you were watching the movie, what was happening to your emotions? Did you become frightened? How come? Were you in any real danger? No? Why didn't your emotions know that? Why did you become fearful even though you knew that there was nothing to be afraid of? I believe it is because you were dwelling on scary thoughts. Using the proverbial horse and cart illustration, our emotions or feelings are like the cart and our mind is like the horse. Like the horse leads the cart around wherever it goes, so also our mind leads our emotions around wherever it goes, and our emotions are about as dumb as a cart, they are simply led by the mind. So whatever our emotions are feeling at any moment, they have been led to the place where they are by the thinking of the mind. Have you felt stressed today? It is because you have been thinking stressful thoughts. Have you felt fearful today? It is because you have been dwelling on fearful thoughts today. Have you been feeling angry today? It is because your emotions have been fed angry thoughts. See how this works?


The above was written by my close friend Glenn. I believe the Lord has given him the gift of wisdom and has showed him what His Word(scripture) really tells us.

I also remember reading in a book written by Eugene Peterson that when it comes to worshipping God, our feelings mean next to nothing. He was talking about the way a lot (maybe even all) of us at one time or another say that we don't want to go to church because we don't feel like worshipping. And because we don't feel like it it won't mean much to God. Which is wrong. God deserves worship ALL the time no matter how we feel. It seems that when we decide when it is a good time to worship, we put ourselves above Him.


The way that I see it is that if we dwell on whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, of good repute, if there is any excellence and anything worthy of praise. The only thing we can look at is Christ Jesus, our savior. And the more we do that, we become discomformed to this world and are transformed by the renewing of our mind. And this is when you know something good is going on because Jesus becomes sanctified in you and all fear, doubt, stress, anxiety and whatever else the enemy throws through us disappears.

WOW God, You are awesome. Sometimes I still can't believe you picked me. I feel the least I can do is worship and praise you every moment of my life. I realize that sin keeps me from doing this, so I continually pray for the metamorphosis to occur.