Daily Encounter: A Week-day Devotional by a staff of ACTS International.

Monday, September 28, 2026

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.¹

Imagine living in a world without emotions. It would be like living in a world without colorâ€"a world without blue skies, white fluffy clouds, red roses, or beautiful rainbows and sunsets. Everything would be a dull monotonous gray. Life would be deadly dull and boring. This is also the case when we ignore or repress our emotions. 

Many of us grew up learning that feelings were not important and that you could not trust them. Regardless of how we felt mentally or emotionally, we were taught to keep going, put on a positive face, and do this until we made it past those negative emotions. For some, feelings of hopelessness or depression meant you didn’t have enough faith or that somehow your spiritual life was lacking. We were even taught to face the death of a loved one with a positive attitude because of the hope of Heaven, all while repressing our true feelings of grief and sadness. I praise God for the gift of salvation and the hope of being in Heaven with Him one day, however, I am also aware that processing through grief is a journey.  

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