feelings or desires even when they are not in harmony with God’s commands. Of course, feelings in and of themselves are not evil. God created us with the ability to feel pain and joy; Jesus Himself is “touched with the feeling of our infirmities” (Hebrews 4:15 KJV). To stoically ignore our feelings or reject them out of hand is to invite callousness and indifference. Paul condemned the wicked who were no longer capable of compassion, who were past feeling (Ephesians 4:19). But our feelings are not a fully