A MOTION IN EMOTION



 A MOTION IN EMOTION

                                                        

 

It was a Valentine evening, Ayo and Tolu were lovers that have been together for some time. As a usual trend on every 14th of February, gift are always being exchanged by Spouses, Lovers, and friends who are dear to the individual's heart.

Ayo was so eager to meet with his lover in other for him to share a token of his heart with her. He took out his phone to get a call across to her so that they could fix a place to meet.

On that faithful evening, he drove his newly acquired Range Rover jeep while Tolu was at his right side of the driver's seat tightening her seat belt before selecting a cool blues music from the genres of music selections inside the Car. They both went on a picnic at a reserved garden a few kilometer from Ayo's office place. They later branched at a shopping mall where they branched to get some gift items for each other as they both agreed to do.

"After getting some gifts items at the mall what's next?” that was the question from their both thoughts!!! Ayo's house should be next.

 

Immediately both step into Ayo's apartment, showers of sweet words started rushing out like a busted pipe from Ayo's mouth.

 "I love you. I know you also do, you mean so much to me. The more I get closer to you the happier I am. I'm ready to spend the rest of my life with you, your love and attention is what I needed most. I give myself to you and also expect that from you also. Please let me love you more ... I love you!!! ".

"Kunmi, (as Ayo is fondly called), you know I love you and will always do but ..." Ayo grasp her hands and moved closer to her with a closer eye contact between the two.

Hmm, are you imagining the action that took place after the eye contact?  EMOTION!!!

 

 It is a person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. It is a natural biological drive with a cognitive evaluation that responds to the inward or outward stimulus. For instance, the Stimuli that elicit the emotional response between the two ‘‘lovers” is the closer contact between the two, the sweet words from Ayo’s, and the event that occurred in the environment at that period (Val Celebration).

Valentine day is meant to be like other days in the Calendar to celebrate Love.  

Love has been defined by many scholar but let me make a reference to the book of life that defines love as God "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." 1 John 4:7-8. Love should be an attitude we should all imbibe but we can't claim to love without first knowing LOVE (GOD). The primary qualification for celebrating love is the ability to control our emotion. Anyone who cannot controls his/her own emotion has no business celebrating love with other people.

The question now is ‘‘how can I control my Emotion?’’.   Emotion are Natural biological traits that has been indebted in us for us to subdue. It is our own responsibility to take control of emotion. Many a person finds his/herself in a position in which it is the emotion that takes control of he/she instead of otherwise. You might say ‘‘after all I am so anointed/holy to be carried away by Emotion’’, yes you might be right but sometimes your emotion is not a respecter of your anointing. The bible even stated it clearly in the book of Life:

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 KJV “18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

19 What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's”. The bible didn’t say walk away from fornication (which is control by Emotion) but says flee; ‘‘flee’’ is not to walk away from something but to take a fast race away from the thing. The best way to ensure your emotion does not override you is to run away from it. The action of moving away from an object is known as MOTION.

 

Get me clearly, I am not saying Emotion is negative or devilish. We all have emotion, and moreover aspect of emotion does not always relate to sexual drive alone but my main focus on this write up is on sexual immorality which is caused mainly by inability to control our thirst for pleasure. As we celebrate the season of love together, whenever emotion want to override you, change to MOTION. Rom 6:12 says ‘‘Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.’’ NKJV. Do not lust after the flesh but live a life that will glorifies God (1 John 4: 7-8). There is no relationship after God. Any love relationship after the body of Christ is lust (the strong physical desire to have sex with somebody, usually without associated feelings of love or affection). As I drop my pen for now let me quote apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 5:9 “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators.

 

The little gift I have for you is this black on a white paper “Whenever Emotion want to override you, change to Motion”.

Shalom!!!

 

Written by:

Ayokunmi-Solomon Jimoh

Twitter: @apostleayoks

 

 

Birthday Shoutout goes to a friend; Elizabeth Atinuke Ariyo. May you age in grace!