This blog is about today's devotion in the book Hearing from God Each Morning by Joyce Meyer.
Today's devotion was about not hardening our hearts by turning off our feelings. Sometimes when we've been hurt a lot in our lives, we harder our hearts in order to protect ourselves from being hurt again. But when we tear down those walls, we can really hear God's voice. God created us to have feelings, and if we try our best to block out those feelings, are we really living the way God intended us to live?
For a while I had turned off my feelings (or at least tried to) to escape all of the pain I was feeling. I put up walls and locked myself away from everyone else. In my mind, it was justified. I've been through so many types of pain in my life, so my reaction wasn't exactly unusual.
But I felt God working on me, telling me to open my heart again. It was not an instant thing, and a couple months later, I'm still working on it. When I cry (which is a lot this past few weeks), I try to remember that it isn't showing weakness when you cry, it's showing that we're human. Don't ever be afraid to cry or hurt; but don't stay there. God wants to show you the good He can do in any situation.
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