A Fraction of a Thought on Emotions

We are made in God's image. God, made us. Besides sin, he gave us what we have. One of those things we have are emotions.

Before the fall of man, everything was perfect, which includes our emotions.

Now lets remember that after God made something, he declared it good. When he created man, he gave us different nuances that made us distinct and seperate from anything else (although animals and plants and other things do have other similar characterstics, only because their creator is also God, and therefore used some of the same designing methods - this for some Christians is not new, I know), and one nuance, whether it's unique to humans or not, is, once again, emotions. Those emotions were also declared by God as, good. Therefore, we must strive to go back to the days where our emotions were good, and ideal to how God wanted them to be.

Now, when are emotions good? I don't think it's hard to see that our emotions are good when we are joyful, happy, cheerful feelings like that. Nobody thinks that depression, bad moods, or being angry are good.

So my thought of this leads me to a change in thinking.

At my Christian college, people are "happy" all the time it seems. Since I've gone here I've always kind of looked down on that because I didn't think it was real or realistic. I still don't believe that it's realistic to be happy all the time, or even always have joy; and the only reason why I say that it's impossible to have joy all the time is because we are fallen and no matter how much we put our faith in God, we never have enough faith, God always has to be faithful to us and we just cannot be perfect and joyful all the time. God can have us be joyful 24/7, but our fallenness will not let us.

Since attending the school, I shyed away from being happy all the time since I didn't think that's how things really worked. Now acutally, I think I didn't try to act happy all the time, beacuse it seemed as though that's how people were acting.

Now that I look back on it, I think some people are still acting, but some are not.

We live in a community of believers, which makes it easier for us to by joyful and happy more often. Now once we graduate, the luxury of living around believers 24/7 will not be there. (Although I do believe that you can experience joy with unbelievers, but just not to the same extent because there's a breaking point that separates the two since the common bond of Christ is not there).

All in all, I believe that I have judged some people at school a little too quickly, but at the same time I think I have not.