I'm interested in surveying how people experience saving grace and the Lord's Holy Spirit.
The presence of God to me is experienced as an awareness. It's not a feeling or lack of a feeling. It's an awareness. An awareness that I "tap into" and sense God's presence regardless of where my emotions are at. I can be aware of God whether I'm happy, sad, angry, scared, confused or whatever.
That awareness has grown over the years as my understanding of Scripture and my understanding of God has grown.
Our emotions should not run our lives; yet we can not (nor should we try) to escape them.
"Feelings come and feelings go,
And feeling are deceiving.
My warrant is the word of God,
Nought else is worth believing."
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I read this thread:
Interesting; but I think you are confusing what is of the fallen world in regards to "the flesh" as opposed to what is (as you describe) by nature the "sensuality" of our existence.
Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity existed by nature of being human in a "sensual existence". His life too was filled with sensual experiences.
He felt joy, pain, peace, happiness, sadness, fear, anger, confusion, doubt.
He could smell flowers, taste food, would have gotten drunk if He consumed too much alcohol; was capable of relational emotions of friendship, love, compassion, pity, anger, distain, and hatred. In abstaining from food, He almost starved to death. He felt pleasure and pain; was capable of getting hungry, thirsty, tired, injured, ill, and even sexually aroused. He had to contend with earthly things like taking showers and using the toilet.
He was physically fashioned just as the rest of us; yet without sin.
So, how would you reconcile your view of what you call "sensuality" being "sin" with Jesus's (as well as our) earthly experiences?
(Again; to the OP - emotions should not run our lives; including our relationship with God. Yet we can not escape our earthly existence.)