Imagine one day, maybe you get to the age of 40 plus, like I did, and then suddenly you feel a new emotion. Like your whole life you've felt what you thought was the whole spectrum of emotions, and then suddenly one day you experience a new one. Wouldn't that be odd?
And yet this is how it feels to become a follower of Jesus Christ.
And you try to talk about it, and try to describe that emotion to other people, and know that they probably won't get it, because how do you describe an emotion that someone hasn't experienced?
Of course that may sound presumptuous, I'm only talking about my own experience, but I know that other Christians will be able to relate to this feeling of the peace that surpasses all understanding, and how there is just no access to this emotion without following Jesus.
While the peace feels completely new to my adult self, I do wonder if this is the same feeling I had in a long distance memory from childhood, a feeling of freedom of weightlessness, a feeling of not having to carry the burden because my parents carried it for me. I know I'm blessed to have experienced it even once, as some never do, and now I'm feeling it anew as an adult with a heavenly parent to carry my burden.
Last night I was awake worrying as I'd come down with a cold, and started stressing about all the things I had to do, and getting all anxious about what I should cancel and what I should try and push through and then words came into my head, ''let me handle this.'' And so I do, and then there is that freedom and peace, the new emotion that is unlike all the other emotions in the dictionary of emotions, because it is not like the fleeting waves of ‘energy in emotion.’ It lasts. Forever. Thank you Jesus.