How can you be sure that love isn’t a feeling? Well, God commands you to love, and since feelings can’t be commanded, love can’t be a feeling. I can’t order you to be happy right now because feelings cannot be commanded. But I could command you to sit down, or stand still, or walk over here, and you could easily do it because those are actions you can do regardless of your feelings. So, when God tells us we are to love others, he isn’t talking about trying to conjure up some fake feelings toward someone we don’t particularly like. Rather he is talking about how you treat people, what you do for them, how you respond to them. That’s because with God, love is an action, not necessarily a feeling.
