Jesus was perfect. Perfection does not mean being a robot or having no emotions!

Having emotions is central to being human. Jesus was the only perfect person to ever live on this planet. He had emotions and was not a robot. We should not be quick to ignore our emotions; they are what makes us human.

Jesus is a wonderful example of what it is to be in a human body, yet be free of the imperfections that all of us have. Jesus displayed many emotions during his time on Earth. 

One example is when He was angry that the moneylenders were doing business in the temple. He overturned their tables. He was not robotic about it. He was human, yet he had perfect discernment to know that this was the correct thing to do. 

Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves. He said to them, ‘It is written,
“My house shall be called a house of prayer”;
but you are making it a den of robbers.’

Matthew 21: 12

One big difference between Him and us is that we do not have the discernment to know when our own actions are good or not, even if our intentions are good.

Another example of Jesus having emotions is when he wept over the city of Jerusalem:

As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, ‘If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 

Luke 19: 41-42 

Being perfect does not mean being a robot! 

It is normal to have human emotions. And it is also important to have the discernment of how to act and what to do. Jesus knew this because He was perfect. We are not. One way we can get better guidance of what to do and how to respond in action to any situation we find ourselves in, is through reading the Bible and prayer. It helps to be reading a bit every day and praying every day (not solely when we are in a confusing situation).

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