Jonathan Edwards intrigued me this morning.

This morning I was doing a little reading from Richard J. Foster's Devotional Classics, and today's reading was Jonathan Edwards. Well, I was a little wary, especially given that my only experience with the man's work was his most famous: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." But today, my reading was about the need for us to reclaim the affections in our faith. Edwards basically argues that human beings do nothing, good or bad, without their affections inspiring them to do so. A life without affection is a meaningless, inactive life. And Deuteronomy 10 reminds us that our heart is crucial to the worship of God. This presumably intellectual seminarian was floored by this concept. I feel like our world is so focused on objectivity and calculating distance that we forget the need for affection. God desires that we come with a "circumcised heart" and not just a head full of dogma and scripture. It's about heart knowledge, and heart knowledge includes our affections and our experience.