The more knowledge that we acquire the more humble we become, realizing that only by the agape love of the Trinity do we have hope. The more that we succumb to His love the more we want to show that love to others that they may come to know Him and the salvation that He provides in Christ Jesus. To God be all glory!
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 first of two terms on which a directed love is built, knowledge suggests an intimate understanding based on a relationship with the person. Here the focus of this knowledge is God. The purpose of increasing in love, controlled by knowledge, is to be able to evaluate people and situations correctly.
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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