Understanding feelings biblically on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

Today I'm joined on the podcast by Alisa Hawkins.

Alisa is an ACBC certified counselor.

She is a member at Lighthouse Church in Torrance, California.

She's been counseling for several years there, and we're excited to

have her with us. She's also married, has been married for six years, has two lovely children,

and she's going to help us today think biblically about feelings. Elisa, welcome to the

podcast. Thank you for having me. So as we think about the issue of human emotions,

I mean, human emotions are raw things and very real things. And sometimes we often wonder,

are these emotions, I don't like them. Sometimes I don't like them. And we wonder, are these

emotions good things or bad things and why yeah that's such a good

question i think um for myself sometimes emotions feel like it just makes life so messy and it makes

it more difficult to live for the lord and to love people well and emotions so often seem to get in

the way of that um but i think it's helpful to look at,

you know, God created emotions and he created them to be a blessing in our life and a way that we

can experience humanity in a colorful way, in a way that is beautiful and profound. And, you know,

we can think about any close relationship, you know,

marriage or a child, parent relationship. We think how awful it would be if we couldn't

experience emotion. So we see that, you know, emotions, yes, were created to be good. But we also

recognize that we are living post fall into sin.

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