One area of our lives that we seldom think of as needing to be under Christ’s Lordship is our emotions. We believe these are ours alone and yet they are very much part of our createdness. God knows and understands we are emotional beings. If we look at Psalm 22 we see the psalmist is emotionally all over the place, and yet he seeks to bring even his dark emotional place under the hand of God. To grow into Christian maturity we too need to bring our emotions under God's control. This does not mean we shut them down, rather it means we know our emotions, hear what they are telling us about where we are, and then bring this before God to find God’s wisdom about how to act in an appropriate way.

Then we will grow more and more in the imitation of Christ.