Here's an email from a long-time listener named Sharon, Dear Pastor John, I have listened

to every episode of Ask Pastor John.

Good night.

Yes, wow.

In countless sermons over the years of DesiringGod.org and I love what the Lord has done through

you in my life and in the life of my children, thank you.

My question, what role do feelings and emotions play in the decisions of the believer?

I desperately try to lead my heart with my mind, but the heart holds so many feelings and

emotions that inform us and seemingly drive us in different directions through life.

On things like career choice, attraction to a spouse, etc.

So what role should our feelings play in our decision making?

Thank you Sharon for your trust, I mean it makes me tremble to think 500 pieces of

cowl, so many times must have gotten things a little bit skewed, I hope I don't mess

her up too much.

Here's my effort, the answer to the magnitude of the role of the emotions in our decision

making is this massive big, it is a big role in our decisions whether we want them to

or not and whether we know it or not, and here's something even more, even more significant

I think than the fact that our emotions play in our decision making about what to do,

they play a role even more powerfully in the thousand things we do every day that we

don't make a decision to do, you know what I mean?

Yeah, maybe ten times during the day you step back and have a hard decision and think

it through with pros and cons and then there are ten thousand facial expressions and tones

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