Post by @theejohnnychang

i'm not a perfect pastor and probably never will be. i still get jealous, lonely, and angry. i think people expect that title to come with an absence of feeling, like i graduated past all of it. i didn't. i still feel everything. the difference is i know what to do with it now. before God, those feelings ran me. jealousy turned into pride. loneliness turned into bad decisions. anger turned into destruction. i had no outlet for any of it, no framework, no idea what to do with it except let it eat me alive. now i bring it to God before it becomes something worse. He didn't save me so i'd stop being human. He saved me so i'd stop being destroyed by it. James 1:19 says, "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath." slow to wrath. i've had to work on that my whole life and i still do. but i'm not fighting it alone anymore, and that's the difference. if you've been thinking your emotions disqualify you from God, they don't. He's not waiting for you to feel less. He's waiting for you to bring more of it to Him. that's why we built the Core of the Heart Daily app. daily devotionals, real scripture, hours of video teachings, plus instant answers rooted in scripture with GospelBot for the moments when the weight hits and you don't know what to do with it. L1NK 1N B10 to download the app and use Gospel Bot!