Feelings and perspective

Jude 19 

19 These people are the ones who are creating divisions among you.

They follow their natural instincts because they do not have God’s Spirit

in them.

 

Emotionality

 

Spiritual principles are sharply defined.

Right and wrong are precise in receptive.

Clear and cloudy ... depressed or refined

Are understood in their true perspective.

 

If the Word of God agrees with their feeling

Emotional people will recognize its mandate.

If the Word does not ... they’ll make it appealing

And conduct self then "easy over" as floppy pancake.

 

In a great emotional upheaval our mind becomes undependable.

It is easily affected then by waves of constant feelings.

Emotions work in full swing right then and are quickly recommendable

Until it drains itself in ways even if it takes much wheeling dealing.

 

Emotion is fully natural ... it has only itself at steak.

Nothing to do with God and life and that is clearly seen.

“Security in salvation” is to send your feelings on a break

Away from “emotion” and from the “ought to’ve been”.

 

Means of emotion or some of them we know very well.

Tears and mournful faces, cries and feelings’ devices.

If we could accept that no life resides in emotions’ spell

We would not try to secure salvation in sympathy’s slices.

 

Emotion cannot bring true light to a darkened spirit.

Regeneration is not found thro impulses of mitigation.

Sorrow, shame, fear, joy, admiration, interest or pity

Cannot pave the way to truth even in concentrated aspiration.

 

Man can experience these things and still be spiritually dead.

In this world of “ours”… this cannot be accepted.

What I feel ... is what I am so very often said

And that my friend is nonsense and totally corrupted.

 

 

Jan Wienen

 

This poem is about: 
My country
Our world

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