So far so good

Greetings everyone!

Well, it’s about time I blog some more again, it’s been a while especially with a new baby in the home…

It’s interesting what J. Edwards has to say about religious affections and how clearly he expresses his view.
So far I’ve only read until why certain emotions (affections) aren’t a sign of being spiritual or non-spiritual and look forward to read part 3 which distinguishes true spiritual emotions.
But what did it teach me so far?
It shows me that a balance is required and what we think to be right might not always be so. The bible tells us that if any lacks wisdom we should ask for it (James 1:5) and in Proverbs it also says to get wisdom (Prov. 3:13, 7:4, 23:23)which is a virtue and in all our getting to get understanding too (Prov. 4:7- The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight)
How easy we can be led astray by incorrect judgements of emotions whether it’s in ourselves or in others and how our human nature is so fickle and fallible. On the other hand we cannot just write someone’s experience of either, God chooses how He reveals Himself to His people, after all He is God. The scriptures are our guide and Edwards rightly says our religion to be a religion of emotions.
After all, how can we say we love if we don’t feel like it or when God asks us to do something we should feel like doing it as well, if we just do it without affection wouldn’t it be a dead religion we profess? We aren’t robots, our God feels and created emotions within us and as we are a reflection of Himself so we too can and need to experience many things. I recently read in Colossians that whatever we do to do it heartily unto God and in chapter 3 vs. 25 it warns about the wrongdoer; we do wrong if we don’t have the right attitude and to me that also means feeling.
May the Lord help us to differentiate rightly I pray.

God Bless!
Cynthia