Despite my Feelings, I'll do it

As stated in my last blog I planned to talk about emotions and some of the things God was teaching me about my own emotions and how to master them. This is to provoke thought and maybe even help someone. Since I started writing about this I sure have been tested and sometimes I passed and the others I just learned. This week one area I have been seeing in my life I keep going through is the thought of doing something and even seeing myself doing something but then waiting until the last minute. The short word for this is procrastination.

Procrastination is something I always struggled with in school I would wait until the day before homework is due and then I would start it. Or register for something on the last day of the deadline. Even now waiting until the day of the potluck to figure out what Im going to bring causes me to be late. I began to think about what are some of my thoughts when these things happen. One of my favorite thoughts is I don't feel like it right now.

The thought I don't feel like right now aligns with my actions to put it off until later. I know this is nothing new to anyone who procrastinates but I traced it back to my feelings and letting my emotions control me. My emotions were telling me I don't feel like washing dishes so now when I have company coming over Im thinking I should have washed the dishes when I thought about it. Leading to regret and even more emotional turmoil. This is not to say emotions are bad but we must be careful to observe our emotions and how it allows us to respond to situations in our lives.

If we want a clean house and we don't feel like cleaning up those are emotions that have to be conquered. We learned in Al Hatties' Building On Spiritual Substance (B.O.S.S), "to be enthusiastic we have to act enthusiastic." This is something we must do in our daily lives we must let our actions align with our goals and not our feelings.

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. -Romans 8:37

For so long I struggled with this but once I gave my life to Christ he changed me from the inside out. It wasn't overnight but he showed me that I had power through him to be who he always called me to be. No longer do I just call out of work because I don't feel like going but I do my best to keep my commitment which in turn gets me one step closer to the woman I aspire to be.

I'd like to end with a prayer:

Lord Jesus help us in this area, Refine them so that they may overcome their emotions today. May our emotions be used as indicators of what needs to be addressed and not as hindrances to reaching our God-given goals. Let every hindrance to the healthy expression of our emotions move in Jesus' name so that they can feel what they are feeling without living reactionary. Lord, we thank you for our emotions and for the authority you have given us to make wise decisions despite what we feel. Starting today we will operate in wisdom and allow our emotions to be fuel for passion and wise choices in Jesus' name.