We must be wary of separating the content of Christianity from the emotional experience of it. We are to be vigorous in every one of our faculties, cultivating devotion to God. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30). This, the greatest commandment, calls us to love God with our whole being. Truths grasped in your mind can be tasted and savoured. Hence we find ourselves experiencing greater love for God as we hear, sing, and speak of the truths we know. Thus deep Christian affection and devotion is inextricably tied to treasured biblical truths you believe with all your mind.Ĭhristian affection is inextricably tied to biblical truth.Īs our minds master truth-and are in turn mastered by it-the rest of our being inevitably follows. A pastor recently pointed out that almost every Christian experiences marked emotional swells when they sing these famous words written by Horatio Spafford. “My sin oh the bliss of this glorious thought / my sin not in part but the whole, / Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more, / praise the Lord praise the Lord oh my soul.” Why do we feel those words so deeply? Why do our affections rise as we sing them? Why do we sing that stanza louder and with more zeal? I think that part of the answer is to be found in the fact that it expresses a truth we deeply believe about the glorious wonder of what Christ achieved for us.
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