“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” -Proverbs 13:12 Have you ever experienced emotional pain from the ache of waiting for something deeply desired that has not come? Maybe you are battling financial hardship, sickness, fertility issues, desiring ...
Psalm 42: Battling Depression with Hope in God
“Day and night I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, “Where is this God of yours?”” Psalm 42:3 NLT Psalm 42 is a passage full of raw emotion. The psalmist describes intense emotions like, yearning, sadness, discouragement, grief, doubt, and pain. Feelings we ...
Emotion in Scripture: Happy Easter!
All of us at SureHope Counseling & Training Center want to wish you a very Happy Easter! This year in our blog we have been focusing on emotion in Scripture. When examining this topic, we see powerful examples of many different emotions expressed throughout the scriptural accounts of Passion ...
Emotions In Scripture: How Jesus Models Emotions
Many Christians have grown up with the subtle belief that strong emotions are something to control, minimize, or even feel ashamed of. Anger, grief, fear, and distress can sometimes feel “unspiritual,” as though maturity in faith means remaining calm and unaffected. Yet when we look closely at ...
Scripture Validates Human Emotion
There is something profoundly comforting when we recognize and deeply internalize the truth that God made himself in human likeness (Philippians 2:7), and Jesus both understands the realities of being human on this side of eternity and empathizes with our weaknesses (Hebrews 4:15). He doesn’t expect ...
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