Loving God's word
Love is a complex thing. Contrary to popular notions, love is not a feeling or an emotion that you can fall into and then fall out of. Love is complex, meaning that love involves many things. Classically speaking, our human faculties are made up of the mind, the will, and the affections. Love is rooted in knowledge, exercised in the willful decision, and experienced in the affections. To love someone involves all of this. To love someone means that you also love the things about someone. This is most true of our love for God. We love Him, and that leads us to love everything about Him. One of those things is His Word. To love God is to love His Word. Psalm 119 says, “Oh how I love your law!” (v. 97). Because the Word is the means that God uses to speak to us, we need to love it and use it. Let’s consider how to do that. BY OUR DUTY TO READ IT We are to love God by loving His Word. Therefore, it is our duty to read it. Just as we give presents because we love someone and they ope