EMOTIONS. Luke 7:37-38, 47.

We are emotional creatures.

I have heard some describe their emotions as a “roller coaster,” but I think emotions are more like waves in the sea. The amount of energy in motion does not really change, but as the sea floor gets nearer to the surface, the waves become more dramatic. We all feel emotions, but some of us experience them as the slow roll of the deep ocean. Others experience them as the surf breaking and pounding on the beach. But we all have emotions—and the same amount of water is moving in each of us, though it is not as obvious if you are one of those in whom “still waters run deep.”

Are your emotions involved in worship? I don’t mean do your emotions look like someone else’s. But does He bring you joy? Does His love and forgiveness bring you gratitude?

Chuck Colson said his conversion was a rational decision—and that’s a great thing in a man like him. But I’m sure as he grew in Christ he developed emotions about his Savior. It’s inevitable.

If you love God and spend time with Him, you will become passionate about Him.

I want to love Jesus more. I want to love Him this way:

“A woman in town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house. She brought an alabaster jar of fragrant oil and stood behind Him at His feet, weeping, and began to wash His feet with her tears. She wiped His feet with the hair of her head, kissing them and anointing them with the fragrant oil…” Luke 7:37-38, 47.

We should all love Jesus like that. We should work our MINDS to study the Bible like Ezra, the only man the Bible repeatedly calls an expert in the word.

But we should also love Jesus with the PASSION of this woman who anointed His feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.

Now THAT is worship!

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