Knowledge Puffs Up While Love Builds Up

Knowledge puffs up while love builds up is a well known Bible phrase from I Cor 8:1. Due to this, I explicitly taught my children that the goal of reading the Bible is not to gain knowledge. Why did I do that?

We have all been to school and have a tendency to learn knowledge as schools test that. We might find trivia as that could be cool. However, the Bible is a book to help us know God. What is he like and what makes him mad? We can find God’s attitude and choices. Why would we bother with knowledge?

Excuse me while I meet with God is much more than knowing which year I Corinthians was written, though loving history I got that too, but the main thing is God and his love.

Knowledge Puffs Up? Let’s Not Let It

Our love is never enough. We go to God to get love as he is the source of all love. I go to God and get more love than I can give. With his eyes, I am made alive. With moral knowledge, I have so little. When God’s love fills me, I am rich indeed.

Paltry knowledge, do not puff us up. In the sight of God, we disdain you.

God’s beauty and holiness draw us like a moth to the flame, Though we are burned, we are refined to be more like Him.

My 92 year old grandmother wrote me long ago, and said, “Reading the Bible through from Genesis this year, it is just like brand knew!” She became to faith at age 73 when I was 11 and also was coming to faith though none of us talked of it at that time. She had been to church her whole life but suddenly faith infused her heart. She had met the living God. Who cares if some of her theology was not as crisp.