Emotions...

Here are some thoughts from today's Slice of Infinity:

An article in a psychology journal recently made a case for the importance of human emotion...Emotions exist to warn us that there are specific underlying beliefs or behaviors that are endangering us. Thus, deeming emotions like fear, doubt, or despair as negative or unwanted, we distract ourselves from heeding their warning...

In the weighted words of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus took the strenuous commandments of the law and the prophets to an exhausting new level. He explained that it was not merely murder that God forbade, but anger burning toward another person. It was not just adultery that corrupted God's intention for marriage but even lust at all. He carried the sins God abhors to the emotions they are rooted in, inviting us to see the power of our emotions and the creator in the midst of them. Our actions do not come merely by impulse, but by a system of values to which a life is committed. Emotions, like pain, are the alarm system of the body. They will lead us to God or further away from God... 

Like an alarm warning the owner that there is something amiss in the building, our emotions hint at what is moving in our depths.