“I don’t feel happy or sad. I wish I could feel something.” He was in an institution telling me about the effects of his medication on his emotions. For the record, I was just visiting.
This led me to consider what life would be like without emotions. It is commonly stated there are 27 emotions: admiration, adoration, aesthetic appreciation, amusement, anger, anxiety, awe, awkwardness, boredom, calmness, confusion, craving, disgust, empathic pain, entrancement, excitement, fear, horror, interest, joy, nostalgia, relief, romance, sadness, satisfaction, sexual desire, and surprise.
Now try to imagine life without these key, motivating factors in it. Let me relate to you where they come from.
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you
God made us as emotional beings. He put us in charge of these necessary ingredients to help us navigate the stream of life. The only thing we need to keep in mind is that we need to control our emotions and not allow our emotions to control us. Many the Bible character and fellow human being failed miserably because they had this thing reversed.
Give it some thought.
Gary