Theocast
As A Christian, Do My Emotions Matter?
December 18, 2024
Summary
What comes to mind when you think about God? Do you feel comfort, safety, and love, or do you wrestle with doubt, dread, and judgment? It's been said that our thoughts about God shape every area of our lives, and today Jon and Justin dive deep into this idea. Join them as they explore who God is, what He is like, and how He has revealed Himself through Jesus Christ. Tune in for a thoughtful and honest conversation about faith, feelings, and the character of God.
Topics
- Episode focus: As A Christian, Do My Emotions Matter?
- What comes to mind when you think about God?
- Do you feel comfort, safety, and love, or do you wrestle with doubt, dread, and judgment?
- It's been said that our thoughts about God shape every area of our lives, and today Jon and Justin dive deep into this idea
- Join them as they explore who God is, what He is like, and how He has revealed Himself through Jesus Christ
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Transcript
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If you've been listening to Theocast for long at all, you maybe have heard us say something like: Don't trust your feelings when it comes to assurance with God or peace with God.
And as you're learning more about the Reformed faith or the confessional faith, maybe you have concluded that, okay, well, maybe emotions and feelings are just bad.
Maybe I just need to push them to the side.
And you're wondering, because you live life every day and you feel a lot of things.
Do my feelings as a Christian, do they matter?
Do my emotions matter?
Do they matter to God?
Do they matter to my pastor?
Do they matter to other people in my local church?
What do I do with my emotional life.
So, John and I are going to have a conversation about all that stuff today, and we are going to ultimately take this to the heart of confessionalism: a preoccupation with God and Jesus being for us.
And so we process ourselves, our lives, our experiences, and our emotions through the objective revealed presence of God with us, for us, and to save us.
We hope that this is a helpful, encouraging conversation to many.
Stay tuned.
If you're new to Theocast, you may not have heard of this word.
It's called pietism.
Have you ever felt like your Christian life is a heavy burden versus rest and joy, that you wake up worrying about how well you're going to perform instead of thinking about what Christ has done for you.
It's dread versus joy, really.
That's pietism.
Pietism causes Christians to look in on themselves and find their hope not in what Christ has done, but what they're doing.
