August 16, 2010
God is a God Who tries emotions. What does the word "try" mean in this
context? It means to test until purified. A few years ago, as I was
praying, God said to me, "Joyce, I am going to test your emotions." I
had never heard of anything like that. About six months later I just
suddenly seemed to become an emotional wreck. I cried for no reason.
Everything hurt my feelings. I thought, "What is the problem here?
What's going on?" Then the Lord reminded me of what He had said to me
earlier, "I am going to test your emotions." He led me to Psalm 7:9 and
Revelation 2:23 and caused me to understand what He was doing for my
own good.
No matter who you are, there will be periods of time in which you feel
more emotional than usual. You may wake up one morning and feel like
breaking down and crying for no reason. During those times you have to
be careful because your feelings will get hurt very easily. The
slightest thing will set you off. There were times in my life when I
would go to bed praying, feeling as sweet as could be, then wake up the
next morning like I had stayed up all night eating nails! What should
we do when we start feeling that way? First of all, we shouldn't start
getting under condemnation. Number two, we shouldn't even try to figure
out what is happening. What we should do is simply say, "This is one of
those times when my emotions are being tried. I'm going to trust God
and learn to control them."
How are you and I ever going to learn to control ourselves emotionally
unless God allows us to go through some trying times? If the Lord does
not allow such testing times to come upon us, we will never learn how
to deal with Satan when he brings them upon us--which he will sooner or
later. Trying times are learning times.
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