Maybe you’re thinking, I have so many strong emotions; how am I going to manage them all? I have found that God usually deals with me one issue at a time. By reading passages relevant to how you’re going to manage your feelings, you are gaining an overall understanding of emotions and, hopefully, why you feel the way you feel at times. You are learning that you must first and foremost depend on God, then take action and be aggressive in your determination not to be a slave to your feelings. Nothing will change just because you read a book. It’s what you do with the knowledge you gain from reading a book that will lead to some change.
I realize that change is not always easy, and perhaps there will be times when you think, I just don’t know if I will ever get this right. But I assure you that if you will not give up, you will keep making progress, and eventually you will have many of your emotions trained and they simply will not be untruly. They will respond the same way a child does when we train them properly. The more we refuse to let our negative emotions rule us, the weaker they become, and eventually we just need to do daily maintenance.
I am not saying that you will never feel angry again, but the anger you do feel will be much easier to manage than it has been in the past. I can honestly say that twenty years ago I was very emotional and now I am very stable. I know from experience that the principles I am sharing with you will work wonderfully in your life if you diligently apply them. Always remember that gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.
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