Week 7, Day 1

Inside Out is the story of Riley – a happy, hockey-loving, 11-year-old Midwestern girl – whose world turns upside down when she and her parents move to San Francisco.

As Riley is growing and maturing into a young woman, her emotions conflict with one another – joy, fear, anger, disgust, and sadness. All these are emotions she has already dealt with throughout her life, but in the stress of moving to a new home, her emotions get heightened.

Mental health is a big thing in our culture today. Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Emotions are powerful. They can take us up or down like the waves of the ocean. When they are left in control, they will certainly sink us. Have you ever felt like you’re sinking because your emotions are out of whack?

“For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.”

2 Timothy 1:7

In Galatians chapter 5, God tells us that a life fully surrendered to His Spirit will produce the great benefit of self-control. We can’t win at emotional well-being or maturity by our own efforts. It will take God in our lives to build a bigger board with self-control.

Read Galatians 5

-What’s one area of your emotional maturity that you can focus on this week to grow in?