dailydatewithgod

Years ago when I had my spiritual experience of Jesus opening up my heart when I was standing on the beach one night, I’ll never forget the message I was given.  As tears were streaming down my face and I felt like my chest was breaking apart, I heard God gently whispering in my ear, “I know this hurts, but I am right here. We need to clear out the anger in here in order to make room for the love.”  I assumed that it meant I needed to get rid of anger.  It seemed to go along with all the messages we receive from the world about good emotions and bad emotions.  We are supposed to have the good ones, and not the bad ones. But why would God have given us all of them if we were not supposed to have them?  I believe Jesus was indicating to me that we needed to clear the anger out of my heart not because it was bad or wrong to exist but because it had gotten into a place it did not belong. I was using it to shut down my heart and keep others at a distance. Emotions are indications of energy.  Energy is designed to be in motion.  Getting stuck in one place it loses its purpose.  It is no longer a helpful indication because it cannot communicate when it is stuck.  God wants us to have the full in motion experience of life and it may mean clearing things out of where they have taken hold.  When love is present in our hearts it is alive and moving throughout us.  It thrives through the heart.  Anger had lost its way in me because I pushed it down, made it wrong, and did not allow it to inform me.  Clearing it out of my heart allowed me to come face to face with it and over the years slowly make peace with it.  Only now am I learning to let it provide information for me versus drive me to shut down and push people away and close off my heart.  Clearing areas of our lives from time to time allows us to evaluate if we are making room for the vital purpose for which we are meant and if those areas of our lives are functioning as God designed versus what we have created.