The Bible teaches that the greatest effort is to love God with all our heart and to love our neighbors as ourselves. While it is true that love is not a feeling, it is certainly something that can be felt. Love for God (or anything else) means delighting in Him and longing (or longing) for His presence (Psalm 42:1). Love involves the affections of our heart, so much so that the theologian Charles Hodge (1972) said: “Love necessarily implies feeling, and if there is no feeling… there can be no love” (p. 240). Being aware of our heart's affections can give us a clue to the things we truly care about. After all, Jesus said, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21 The New International Version). Emotions will not give us the truth, but they will inform us about what is happening
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