Monday, January 4, 2021

We are fashioned with genuine feelings that promptly follow our necessary thoughts. But because we are morally corrupted in our faculties, our passionate souls are not functioning as one. If we are confronted by a bad experience, we naturally begin feeling threatened. And if we are confronted with an excellent experience, we feel successful. But in this ideal world, the comprehensive vision of mutual good and bad is turned upside down. Christ was always consistent with His appropriate reactions. His comprehensive approach was direct. He did exactly as He said. But we are extremely complicated in our expressed feelings because our action never accompanies our intended words perfectly. Our intelligent mind doesn't recognize comprehensive reality and our feelings do not always line up with our moral reactions. We need the word and Spirit to examine our hearts and discern our intentions by uniting soul and spirit. Consequently, we vicariously experience the unity of blessing coming together with cursing.

 But God is faithful in His desires. His word is an expression of His desire. If God did not feel then we would not appreciate the feeling of pleasure, pain or anger. The fact that God's experiences are part of His examining our hearts. Whatever problems we develop, being confused about how we feel, being hardened by anger, or being tempted by lust, God searches our hearts. He exposing our inward desires reorders, or consumes our feelings. But we are required to faithfully follow and comprehend the word of God. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use has trained themselves to distinguish good from evil."God examines our hearts by His word. The divine word is an ideal expression of the faithful man. It produces a holistic understanding of the faithful spirit of Christ. Consequently, we consider in the Psalms the objective description of the emotional life of Christ. The justified pronounced reactions to governments, social evil, the wicked, and the righteous. These desires come from the mysterious depths of our souls. The fountain of eternal life in lively feelings that flow out in recreation. Christ's emotional life sufficiently expressed with supreme justice in the perfectly aligned soul and spirit. 

 We cannot sufficiently separate genuine feelings from necessary action. People say even tho you don't feel it just do it. This is a downright reckless view of life. We are not deterministic automatons trying to act correctly, but we are intimately related to Christ by death, "for me to live is Christ."The elementary teaching of thinking, feeling, and acting are made clear by the complex study of the life and death details of the everlasting gospel.




 

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