Spiritual and Emotional Wellness

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.

Loving Well is the theme of the Christian life. To love well is to love God, ourselves, and others. In order to love well as Christians we must have an emotionally healthy spirituality. I have already stated, “transformation is produced by applying the Holy Spirit’s power to emotional healing. This power is released through Biblical meditation. The end result is Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.

Emotionally healthy spirituality is not just an abstract concept. It is something that can be seen in a life that is anchored in the love of God, free from the illusions of performance, possessions and popularity and balanced between doing and being.

To be emotionally healthy we need to get a glimpse of the Love of God and to know we are deeply loved by God. God loves us as sons and wants us to experience the full rights and privileges that come with it .We need to experience this infinite love in our heart, not just in our head.

The Key to emotionally healthy spirituality is to be anchored in the love of God

“ That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Eph 3:17-19.)

Jesus is the prime example of what emotionally healthy spirituality is.

· He was anchored in the love of God. Matt. 3:17

· He was free from illusions of performance, possessions and popularity. Lk. 4:1-12

· He was balanced between doing and being. Jo. 6:15.



A secondary example is Mary of Bethany. ( Luke 10: 38-42.)

· Sitting at the feet of Jesus.

· Listening to His words.

· “Mary hath chosen that good part….”



Martha on the other hand was:

· “distracted- performance driven- much serving.

· “worried”.

· “troubled about many things”

· tried to use Jesus to have things done her way- she wanted to change others.(jealousy, self-pity, complaining, manipulative.)

· Martha was the one desperately in need of change.

Many of us like Martha need to slow down, sit at the feet of Jesus (Biblical meditation) and take a deep look inward to know our true self in Christ that we might know the Lord better and His purpose for our life. Only then can we experience emotionally healthy spirituality.