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>What would be bad, is if we'd put that feeling of "love" at the throne of our heart, right where Christ should be.
You could have just quoted 1 john 3:18-20
>My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
>And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
>For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
<but it seems that putting your love life as the core of your happiness, making it the core of your, perhaps even spiritual life, is a corruption of this God given gift.
Indeed see hebrews 12:5-11
>And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
>For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
>If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
>But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
>Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
>For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
>Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Most cultural false-christians would tell you to winnie the pooh off if you quoted hebrews 12:5-11 because they are in it for the feeling and not the fact of the matter of serving God in spirit and in truth john 4:24. They'd also reject leviticus 19:17-18 on these same lines of feeling good rather then doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
>Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
>Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
So rebuke your neighbor and suffer not sin upon him in any wise, if you love him as yourself that is. And see luke 10:29-37 for who your neighbor is.
>But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
>And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
>And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
>And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
>But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
>And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
>And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
>Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
>And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.