Love and Knowledge

Love is blind, or so the world tells us.  If you really love someone, you become blind to their faults and foibles, and cannot see them for who they really are.

But when Paul prays for the church at Philippi, he prays for their love to grow in knowledge and discernment for God, and for each other.

God knows us fully, and still loves us!  There is nothing you have done that has made God regret giving His Son for you!  And as we grow in love towards God, we grow in discernment.  Discernment is the act of thinking biblically about life, and putting everything in our life up to the test of scripture.  As we love someone, we learn to act in ways that please them.  This is Pauls prayer for the church, and for ours as well.

For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. - Phl 1:8-11 NASB