. Even in Christian circles the emotions get denied in favour of “what does the Word say”. Motivation can be an emotion, but most of the time it’s just a purpose statement like, “I want to lose weight to fit into my skinny jeans”. So what does one do when one is emotionally burnt out? This does not have to be because of depression. Many things can cause emotional burn out.
So what do you do? How do you reclaim your emotional energy and passion and combat burn out?
Settling Emotional Issues:
Is the answer where we think?
We need to distinguish between what the "word really says", and what you "hear in Christian circles."
The whole problem is that these two are not always the same.
So... you shouldn't equate them.
The word always has answers for us, but the brethren... not always.
Christians will often give very trite and vacuous responses from scripture for all of life's problems.
The issue isn't necessarily that the scriptures they quote are not applicable, the issue is that they usually don't know HOW to do the application.
Most Christians just repeat whatever they've heard, without the slightest thought to what they're really saying.
* Usually... advice is not found in a singe verse.
* Usually... advice is found in applying ALL principles of scripture, in a balanced way, to your problem.
Sometimes that CAN be summed up in a single verse, but usually it cannot.
So, we need to make a distinction between "what the word says" and "what Christian circles say."
They are not always the same.
Now, if we start with that as a premise, where does that take us?
Looking for the real answer:
The scripture actually makes it very clear, over and over, throughout all of scripture, that something as SIMPLE as continual meditation on scripture WILL sort us out emotionally.
If we apply ALL of scripture, we see that simple principle throughout, over and over.
More time in the scripture, along with more time in prayer, really WILL settle those emotional issues.
That is where we find peace.
We find peace in spending more time with God... in prayer and in his word.
The solution really IS simple.
You need to spend more time with God.
Spend more time with God, in prayer and in scripture.
If you start doing this daily, and continually, you will start to see things differently, and you'll start to feel differently.
Your emotional state will begin to change and settle.
But it takes some effort and commitment.
There are many principles in scripture about WHY prayer helps us so much, and WHY meditation on scripture helps us so much.
You can study those out if you want to know HOW it all works and WHY it's so powerful.
Conclusion:
1. The solution to emotional problem STARTS with spending more time with God.
2. We need MORE time in the word, listening to God's thoughts, and we need MORE time in prayer, pouring out our hearts and seeking God's supernatural provision.
3. In Christianity, the answers are often easy to understand... but hard to do.
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