"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."
2 Corinthians 10:5
The "knowledge of God" spoken of here is love, and all that the holy concept of love entails.
The Word tells us that God Himself is love, and once again, I'm reminded, provoked, encouraged, and challenged to imitate the Ultimate Lover.
My greatest hurdles and hindrances to loving others as Yeshua loves me comes in the form of arguments, pretensions, suppositions, traps, that pop up if I'm not vigilant, right from my own cold heart, and a mind that can suffer from a lack of renewal, only the Holy Spirit and the Word can "melt me, and fan the flames."*
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self‑seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NIV84
*Thanks Misty Edwards/ What Only You Can Do
2 Corinthians 10:5
The "knowledge of God" spoken of here is love, and all that the holy concept of love entails.
The Word tells us that God Himself is love, and once again, I'm reminded, provoked, encouraged, and challenged to imitate the Ultimate Lover.
My greatest hurdles and hindrances to loving others as Yeshua loves me comes in the form of arguments, pretensions, suppositions, traps, that pop up if I'm not vigilant, right from my own cold heart, and a mind that can suffer from a lack of renewal, only the Holy Spirit and the Word can "melt me, and fan the flames."*
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self‑seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NIV84
*Thanks Misty Edwards/ What Only You Can Do
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