Topic > The Four Components of Emotional Intelligence - 1040

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