Intimate,
emotional experience with God is necessary, not for salvation, but to
know the fullness of all God has for us. God wants our whole person,
not just the safe parts we're willing to give him.
In
the West we're often OK with him being the God of our mind and our
will, but our emotions? Not so much. But we need to let him be the
Lord of our emotions, too. It doesn't have to be a big, hairy deal.
It's not always deep battlefield surgery; sometimes it's a gentle
butterfly touch. But he decides which and when, not us.
If
we want to know the fullness of all God has for us, then we need to
experience him with our full being, including our emotions.
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