Continuing on in 1 Corinthians 12:5 we see God's love in us is not touchy. What does it mean "touchy". Do you ever find yourself exclaiming in unbelief at a mere suggestion made by your husband?
Are you easily upset, irritable, quick-tempered or sensitive, or all of the above? Then you are touchy. How about moody? Being moody all comes down to one thing. You are being ruled by your emotions instead of by Jesus instead of your Lord and Savior. When you get caught up by emotion and let emotion rule your life, you are letting emotions be your lord. You are saying you have more confidence in your emotions than you do in Jesus, the Word.
When we are ruled by emotions, we think it gives us permission to say everything we are thinking and feeling. But the fact is, moodiness is not a characteristic of God's love. When we are up and happy one minute and angry and irritable the next, our husbands don't know how to respond to us and frankly, don't want to be around us. And nowhere in the Bible does it say that women are just more emotional than men so it's okay to behave like this. If God did make women more sensitive, it was so we could be more compassionate towards others and to be able to be a help meet to our husbands, not so we could use it against them and to repel them.
We teach our kids to be kind, to share, to listen and not hurt other people's feelings and then we turn around and do the opposite when it comes to our husbands. Actions speak louder than words and our kids are watching us. They will not only pick up your good habits but also your bad ones.
Again, we must filter our actions and words through the Word of God in order to renew our minds and change our thinking about God's love and how to operate in it. We can do this with the help of the Holy Spirit. We must only ask. The Word says He is our Helper and Counselor. How long could you do your job without proper tools? How well could you do it? The Holy Spirit is the tool to help us live our lives through the word. Love only makes being married sweeter, never sour. Love only brings blessings, never curses. Love only builds up, never tears down.
© 2011 Michelle Serna
