Jesus Experienced All Human Emotions

How many times have you heard that Jesus experienced all of the emotions that we do? Did Jesus have our same feelings? Hebrews tells us…

So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. Hebrews 4:14-15

A study by Alan S. Cowen and Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., of the University of California, Berkeley, published last year in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences reported that there are as many as 27 different categories of emotions.

• Admiration
• Adoration
• Aesthetic appreciation
• Amusement
• Anxiety
• Awe
• Awkwardness
• Boredom
• Calmness
• Confusion
• Craving
• Disgust
• Empathetic pain
• Entrancement
• Envy
• Excitement
• Fear
• Horror
• Interest
• Joy
• Nostalgia
• Romance
• Sadness
• Satisfaction
• Sexual desire
• Sympathy
• Triumph

Dancing for Joy...or for Sorrow in Jerusalem.

My goal for the month of August is to look at these emotions and find examples in scripture of Jesus’ experience with them. Come along with me in this search…to know Jesus better.

Prayer ~ Lord…May You show me the way of life, granting me the joy of Your presence and the pleasures of living with You forever (Psalm 16:11) that I may be a faithful servant to You. Open my eyes and my heart to Your truths…and Your ways.

Daily Bible Reading: Isaiah 64-66 

© 2018 Text and photos by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.

All scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT) unless otherwise noted.

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