Our emotions can be our friend or our enemy. Our emotions allow us to feel certain ways when something in our life has affected us negatively or positively.
In order to know there is something wrong we have to feel emotion. Anger, sadness, fear, and other emotions which are similar are just as important as let's say joy, happiness, peace, and love. As humans if we do not feel negative emotions but we feel positive ones, there is something wrong. If we only feel negative ones but no positive emotions there is something wrong or if we have no feeling of emotions period. In order to be "balanced" in life we must be able to feel all emotions. If there is an unbalance in our emotions, it means we are disconnected in some way.
If we were standing at a stove cooking and all of a sudden our hands slips and touches the hot pan, if we did not move our hand by feeling that the pan was hot, we would probably burn our hand badly. The nerves within our hand sends our brain a message that says, "HOT AND THIS HURTS, MOVE YOUR HAND!" So we jerk away quickly. And depending on how hot the pan is, you might feel the pain for a while afterward.
This is similar to how our emotions are. They allow us to know when something is wrong in our life. If we never felt sadness or anger how would we know something is wrong or not right? How would we know that something needs corrected? If we never experienced happiness or joy how would we feel or know good things or something we've done right. Emotions allow us to know whether or not there is a problem.
However, there is another side to be considered about our emotions. Emotions can be a good thing but they can also be our enemy as well. Our emotions become our enemy when we begin to allow them to control us. Instead of us controlling our emotions, we allow them to control us, and they determine our actions.
Proverbs 16:32
"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."
Proverbs 25:28
"He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls."
Romans 6:12
"Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof."
1 Corinthians 6:12
"All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any."
An example of our emotions ruling us would be, let's say, you get angry. The Bible says to be angry but sin not. We are to have a righteous indignation about us but the Bible specifically says to sin not. So if we do not have our emotions under control they begin to control us and cause us to act upon them. So if you get angry and can't control your anger then you may end up cussing or doing something else that you may not normally do. And this is just an example but it can and could happen if we do not control ourselves.
