MASTER YOUR EMOTIONS
We hear about the importance of developing our IQ or Intelligence Quotient all the time. But not enough emphasis is being made on the importance of developing our EQ or Emotional intelligence Quotient.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize one’s moods, feelings and impulses, and process them into right thinking and action. It goes hand in hand with spiritual maturity (1 Corinthians 3:1-3).
Disappointments are inevitable. And how we handle our emotions especially in difficult circumstances says a lot about our emotional maturity, and ultimately, about our spiritual maturity. Parents must teach their children how to face disappointments and not to shelter them from it. The problem is, even some adults are unable to process disappointments properly. They make sinful decisions that hurt themselves, others and God.
Emotions are not necessarily bad, but they can be negative. We don’t have to deny them, but we need to learn to process them, to master them. I we don’t master our negative emotions, they will master us. Take Saul for example. When David won the face-off with Goliath, Saul eyed him with jealousy instead of praising God (1 Samuel 18:8-9). And when he saw that God was with David, Saul became fearful of him instead of just thanking God that he had such a man on his team (1 Samuel 18:28-29).
