One of the books I'm reading through right now is called "The Cry of the Soul" by Dan Allender and Tremper Longman. The premise is that our emotions reveal our deepest questions about God. A few thoughts from the book have stood out to me and I wanted to share them here. Would love to know what others think!
"Rather than focusing on trying to change our emotions, we are wiser first to listen to them. They are a voice that can tell us how we are dealing with a fallen world, hurtful people, and a quizzical God who seldom seems to be or do what we expect of Him. Although emotions are generally aroused in a human context, they always reveal something about how we are dealing with God."
"...All emotion, positive or negative, opens the door to the nature of reality. All of us prefer to avoid pain - but even more, we want to escape reality. Even when life is delightful, joy is fleeting and its brief appearance only deepens our desire for more. Pleasure holds a wistful incompleteness because, even at best, it is a poor picture of what we were meant to enjoy. As a result, we never feel completely satisfied with our present life, no matter how well things go. Anticipation inevitably carries with it disappointment and longing. Emotion propels us into the tragic recognition that we are not home. And if this is true of our most pleasurable moments, then isn't it even more true of our painful memories and experiences? We will never fully enjoy what we were meant to experience until heaven. But it is not easy to embrace the tragedy of the fall and our distance from home."
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