Chapter 15—Emotional Factors
Obedience to God Delivers From Passion and Impulse—
Obedience to God is liberty from the thralldom of sin, deliverance
from human passion and impulse. Man may stand conqueror of him-
self, conqueror of his own inclinations, conqueror of principalities
and powers, and of “the rulers of the darkness of this world,” and
of “spiritual wickedness in high places.”—
The Ministry of Healing,
131
(1905).
Emotions to Be Controlled by Will [
See Chapter 76, “Decision
and the Will.”
]—Your part is to put your will on the side of Christ.
When you yield your will to His, He immediately takes possession of
you, and works in you to will and to do of His good pleasure. Your
nature is brought under the control of His Spirit. Even your thoughts
are subject to Him.
If you cannot control your impulses, your emotions, as you may
desire, you can control the will, and thus an entire change will be
wrought in your life. When you yield up your will to Christ, your life
is hid with Christ in God. It is allied to the power which is above all
principalities and powers. You have a strength from God that holds you
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fast to His strength; and a new life, even the life of faith, is possible to
you.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 148
(
My Life Today,
318
.)
Emotions Controlled by Reason and Conscience—The power
of the truth should be sufficient to sustain and console in every ad-
versity. It is in enabling its possessor to triumph over affliction that
the religion of Christ reveals its true value. It brings the appetites, the
passions, and the emotions under the control of reason and conscience,
and disciplines the thoughts to flow in a healthful channel. And then
the tongue will not be left to dishonor God by expressions of sinful
repining.—
Testimonies for the Church 5:314
(1885).
Doing God’s Will Versus Feeling and Emotions (counsel to a
young man)—It is not your feelings, your emotions, that make you
a child of God, but the doing of God’s will. A life of usefulness is
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