“I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation – the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ – for this will bring much glory and praise to God.” Philippians 1:9-11
As we can see here in Philippians, for the believer – our hearts and minds were intended to grow together. It is obviously good to grow in knowledge and understanding, but we must also seek to make the connection of how that knowledge glorifies the love of God. As believers, love basically qualifies our knowledge. It’s what keeps our minds in check to make sure we’re not just learning a bunch of things without allowing them to produce the character of Christ in our hearts.
Whenever I learn something new, even if it might sound really good, I actually wait until I can make the “love of God connection” before I receive it fully and apply it to my life.
I Corinthians 14:1a Let love be your highest goal!
LGR
