Lesson 4 God Is Passionate and Compassionate

Emotions are often viewed as undesirable and to be avoided. For
some people, emotions are intrinsically irrational, and thus, the
good man or woman would not be described as “emotional.” In
some ancient Greek philosophy, the idea of the “rational” man, who is
(mostly) either impervious to passions or who rules over his emotions
by way of unemotional reason, is prized as the ideal.
Unbridled emotions can be problematic, yes. However, God created
people with the capacity for emotions, and God Himself is displayed
throughout Scripture as experiencing profound emotions. If God can
experience deep emotions, as the Bible consistently portrays, then emotions cannot be intrinsically bad or irrational—for the God of the Bible
is perfectly good and possesses perfect wisdom.
In fact, there are beautiful truths to be garnered from the realization
that God’s love for us is a deeply emotional love, but always with the
caveat that though God’s love (emotional or otherwise) is perfect, it
should not be thought of as identical to emotions as humans experience
them.
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