This now gives you the increased capacity to choose to exhibit the positive fruits of the Holy Spirit. Negative emotions are not removed when you become a Christian. Therefore you need to understand them and learn how to handle negative emotions. You need to know how to appropriate God's grace to reduce the frequency of the negative emotion being expressed and also to accept God's grace for forgiveness when those negative emotions are expressed in detrimental ways. Understanding Emotions 1.
Emotions are normal.
As humans beings we are multi-dimensional. That is we are physical, spiritual, social, and intellectual. But we also are emotional and psychological. If we didn't have emotions we wouldn't be truly human. But, love can be negative if it becomes possessive or controlling.