Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Do we feel pierced?

One of our human problems is translating spiritual matters into feeling. So many times in scriptures Jesus compares spiritual matters with human experiences. “This is my body, take eat.” “He who drinks the water I give will never thirst again.” “My sheep know my voice.”

All these things we know in the flesh, experienced before we came to Christ. There is little that anyone can say to convince us we are not feeling our way through this life of faith. Feelings are what caused us to seek Him in the first place.

• Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
• Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

A contrite heart is a broken heart, tell me that isn’t emotional. We are created emotional beings. Love is after all an emotion. How we express that love is as vast as the many ways love is defined. Passion, friend, family, even the mistaken sense of appetites. “I love coffee ice cream.”

Then God comes along and we discover agape love. God’s love is perfect love. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends.

And that is where we differ from God. We can be fickled in how we express love. We can even deny the love that captures us.

2 Timothy 2:13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.

The KJV uses the words if we stop believing. We can stop believing in love. Some kinds of love can hurt, but not Agape.