Thursday, August 25, 2011
I Cor. 8:1 "Knowledge Puffs Up" (August 26)
I Cor 8:1 "All of us possess knowledge." This knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. You may know all the right things, hold the right answers, speak the right rhetoric, but without LOVE, all the human knowledge you possess is worthless. You may have worked hard to acheive the knowledge you have in a certain area, but what good is it if it is without love? If your life isn't producing love for your husband, your children, your family, your neighbors, your world, then I wonder what you have missed? Knowledge fills you up with lots of rhetoric and hot air. Love pours out of repentant hearts. Isa 57:15 Revive us with courage, O LORD---those of us who have repented.
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Love builds. Souls, hearts, spirits--wherever love resides, love multiplies, love softens, love heals. The restorative power of love is found in its Creator, Love Himself.
ReplyDeleteI say this often but particularly in marriage, being "right" is a lonely place.
Father, if we err, may we err on Love's side. Help us build up our families, our husbands, our neighbors, our business acquaintances with Your Love. Empty us of selfish motives and insincerity. Give us Your Eyes of Compassion when we have tendencies to judge or feel superior. Thank You for Your example of being Servant to all, the ultimate Love sacrificing all for unworthy us. May we walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
A good word, Annette!
ReplyDeleteI loved what you wrote Annette. I'm in tears over here struggling through and it touches deep places in me. Thank you, my dear.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for the gift of your writing ability to express what is on my heart.
Bev, the writing touches deep places in my heart...thank you for bringing this scripture to light today.
This is a Song I must Sing, Sylvia
Michele, so good to know you are still reading with us. Love you and miss you. Sylvia
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