Sometimes I wished I was created without emotions. Then we can be shielded against all hurful, poisonous arrows of unkind words shot at us. We would be immuned to others irresponsible usage of sarcasm and deeds. The most heart-breaking thing is being in the midst of your close friends and yet feel isolated. How? It happens. I call it the ultimate loneliness. Being there and yet not there. Too difficult to comprehend?
Picture this, won't it be good if what I say does not affect you? In that case, we don't have to worry about misleading others, causing another brother to fall or the young ones to sin. People then need not be defensive of themselves. The world has turned upside down. The many homicide or suicide cases we hear of these days branched off from the inability of people to take and digest another person's irresponsible usage of words. Minor arguments that broke out lead to bigger dispute and soon, when anger starts to flare, people lose their mind. They start to do silly things. They become violent. They can even kill. You see, human are amazing creatures. We are so carefully and wonderfully made that every single brain cells we have are positioned rightly. When one unhappy word is heard, signals are sent across. Hormones implement its effects. And boom, one person can turn into a monster just like that. Control system fails. System crashed!
Now, anger is an emotion. If the world does not know anger, won't that be good? Jealousy is also an emotion. Envy and covetousness fall into the same category. If a couple knows not of jealousy, it would not irk one partner's anger unnecessarily if all the other partner does was purely conversing with a member of the opposite sex. However, without jealousy or envy, we wouldn't know how much the other party cares for us. People will become robotic. Relationship will become simple but steel-y.
Unfortunately, (fortunately, rather)it is also jealousy that God demand us to obey and love Him only and no one else. It was jealousy and love that made God send His beloved Son to die on the cross for our sins. It was this pure jealousy that He demands worship from us. It wouldn't be ideal in God's eyes if we were created without emotions. We would never come to know what's love. Without knowing what love is, we wouldn't appreciate His ultimate sacrifice.
It's really ironic. Love unites but it also divides. Emotions add salt and pepper into our lives but too much of it, life becomes too salty and it is bad for us. Ironic...
3 comments:
absolutely agree that God could not have made the a world without emotions... for He was a God with divine attributes of emotion. Although the emotions that we have now on earth may be tainted with irony, God's love is perfect and that is what He intended love to be and will ultimately accomplish in His time. 1 Cor 13 could not have defined love any better, any kind of deeds with out LOVE (love that God intended) is simply nothing, and that is precisely how our world is sadly, simply nothing...
I wouldn't be so pessimistic about our world, although inevitably you are right. But I believe that hope still afloats. Just like in the times of Noah, the Lord was patient with the people. And the times when Abraham pleaded with the Lord. There was still hope for the people. It was just that they heeded not the plea of Noah and Abraham. Our world may have degraded from the time it was created. And just as then, the people today are not listening to HIm too. Ears were too busy listening to worldly propagandas. Eyes busy eyeing for opportunities to make more money...etc. ButI believe that the Lord will remain patient until He comes again. Praise Him for that.
Amen, in His fullness of grace and mercy, we are blessed.
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