How can we glorify God through our emotions?

In this video, Carlton McLeod discusses the range of emotions that are present throughout the Bible and in the lives of biblical characters. You see passion and love and worship. You see anger. You see great joy. You see despondency and sadness. You see hopelessness. You see it all. He argues that there is a middle ground between being overly emotional and being robotic, and that emotions must be under control. 

However, he also emphasizes the importance of being able to feel and express emotions in worship and in response to God's word. McLeod believes that emotions can be a positive thing when they are guided by the Holy Spirit and that they should not be stifled or ignored.

Romans 12:15 (NKJV) - "Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep."

You know, when we read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and we look at the lives of the biblical characters, you see the range of emotions. You see passion and love and worship. You see anger. You see great joy. You see despondency and sadness, you see hopelessness, you see it all.

I do think that there is this kind of a reaction to emotionalism is going too far to the other side where we have our emotions so tightly constrained that we're like robots. I think there's a middle ground somewhere. And I think those of us who believe in solar scripture, I think you see through the scriptures this range of emotions And and so I think that they must be on our emotions must be under control We never do it. We will always want to be decent and in order and all that we do at the same time how hard is it to sing a song extolling the virtues of God, or the fact that Christ died for our sins and was our propitiation? We sing some of these great hymns.

How hard is it to do that and not feel anything? How hard is it to do that, to hear a sermon that is just thundering from on high the majesty of God or the attributes of our God or who we are in Him or the fact that he's coming back or judgment or sin and not feel conviction or not feel, you know, a sense of awe and wonder about who he is and so this amen or hallelujah kind of bubbles up or bubbles out and so I think there's a wonderful middle ground where we are under control, where we are not a slave to our passions. At the same time though, we have not stifled the wonderful joys or sometimes the difficult convictions or any of the other range of emotions that God Himself has given us in His worship and in living for Him. I think emotions can be a very good thing if under the unction of the Holy Spirit. And I think God gave us the ability to express them for a reason.

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