My daily prayer is that I can love everyone without reservation knowing God’s great love for all of His creation. Is it easy to love those who offend you or are so far from your ideology? No, but with the help of the Holy Spirit I strive each day to overcome this earthly body and live in Him.
The love that Paul sought for the believers is the highest form of Christian love, based on a lasting, unconditional commitment, not on an unstable emotion. The Greek word for discernment means moral or ethical understanding based on both the intellect and the senses. The word implies perception or insight into social situations. The purpose of increasing in love, controlled by knowledge, is to be able to evaluate people and situations correctly. Christ died to free the church from every blemish. Paul conveys the sense of not striking out at someone or leading others into sin by one’s own behavior.
Philippians 1:9-11
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, 10 that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
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