I have consulted with many of my Christian brothers and sisters about obeying God, and the general consensus is that if you aren't doing it out of love, you may as well not be doing it at all.
Something is still wrong in my walk with God though. I find that I have little room for love in my heart for God or anyone else (except perhaps for my wife and a few other treasured people). It's not that I want it that way, but despite my prayers and attempts to be loving, the feelings just aren't there. I guess what I really want to know is this:
a). Should I continue to serve other people, even though it's not born out of love?
and
b). What must I do to kindle feelings of love towards God and people, so that my acts of servitude aren't fake anymore?
As a side note, I fervently pray to God almost every day, asking Him to change my heart. I've been praying for a long time, but my problem seems to be getting worse, and I'm beginning to despair.
Thank you everyone who decides to respond. God bless.
Corinthians 13:1-3
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of a prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Something is still wrong in my walk with God though. I find that I have little room for love in my heart for God or anyone else (except perhaps for my wife and a few other treasured people). It's not that I want it that way, but despite my prayers and attempts to be loving, the feelings just aren't there. I guess what I really want to know is this:
a). Should I continue to serve other people, even though it's not born out of love?
and
b). What must I do to kindle feelings of love towards God and people, so that my acts of servitude aren't fake anymore?
As a side note, I fervently pray to God almost every day, asking Him to change my heart. I've been praying for a long time, but my problem seems to be getting worse, and I'm beginning to despair.
Thank you everyone who decides to respond. God bless.