NIV 1 Corinthians 8... 1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge.[a] Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. 3 But the man who loves God is known by God.
AMP 1 Corinthians 8... 1 NOW ABOUT food offered to idols: of course we know that all of us possess knowledge [concerning these matters. Yet mere] knowledge causes people to be puffed up (to bear themselves loftily and be proud), but love (affection and goodwill and benevolence) edifies and builds up and encourages one to grow [to his full stature]. 2 If anyone imagines that he has come to know and understand much [of divine things, without love], he does not yet perceive and recognize and understand as strongly and clearly, nor has he become as intimately acquainted with anything as he ought or as is necessary. 3 But if one loves God truly [[a]with affectionate reverence, prompt obedience, and grateful recognition of His blessing], he is known by God [[b]recognized as worthy of His intimacy and love, and he is owned by Him].
MSG 1 Corinthians 8... 1The question keeps coming up regarding meat that has been offered up to an idol: Should you attend meals where such meat is served, or not? We sometimes tend to think we know all we need to know to answer these kinds of questions-- 2but sometimes our humble hearts can help us more than our proud minds. 3We never really know enough until we recognize that God alone knows it all.
Talk about synchronicity.....reading Experiencing the Trinity and what it, the author said this morning is just what Paul is saying here....you just want to jump up and down and say I GET IT I GET IT..... So many times the more I read the Bible the more it DOES become the authority, was the authority, IS the authority....people are just saying what it says in a different way....???
what it says is said over and over again....why not just listen to it?? What if..??...what if I lived by it.....I'm supposed to and try to but what if I DID...I mean really did??
I don't KNOW CRAP and yet in this moment I 'feel' as if I have been given the world.........
Humble hearts......the more I seek Him the more my heart breaks and in the breaking is humilty.....??
Humble hearts.....the more I seek Him the more I SEE my proud mind...the more I see my stiff neckedness....my stubbornness....the more I see my own fallenness and yet in the seeing of that I 'feel' more love....??....in the brokenness I 'feel' more love..??...in the humility of being broken I feel more love..??.. and in the feeling more love I KNOW it's YOU.....
I don't know...I don't need to KNOW... save seeking God with my whole heart changes EVERYTHING......
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But you do "know" all things. You have the "Knowing One" living inside you. :) Just check it out...when you hear truth for the first time something inside you responds "Yes!" See you knew it all along cause you know Him. :)
sounds like your trip was good....
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