Why And How To Develop A Healthy Mistrust Of Your Feelings

WHY:

In an interview on Focus on the Family, Dr. Larry Crab said this, in response to why we need to be leery of our feelings: "....there are times when things happen inside of me that have nothing to do with the Holy Spirit, and have everything to do with my flesh, everything to do with my irritability and my impatience, my demanding spirit and my sense of entitlement, um … my inappropriate desires. All sorts of things can go on inside of me. And, I have to subordinate the expression of my feelings to the purposes of God. And that means that … not that I’m going to … I think one of the worst things we say to each other is, “Well, I gotta be honest with you.” Rather than saying it that way, because usually that means, I’m gonna let you know exactly how I feel, and you better respond and shape up.
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From the Word of God:

Jeremiah 17:9 
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Proverbs 28:26 
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

1 John 3:20 
For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.

Proverbs 14:12-13 
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.

Proverbs 12:15  
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

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