Knowledge and Insight Without Love

1 Corinthians 8:1-"...knowledge puffs up, love builds up"
The pursuit of knowledge and insight, while good and noble, are destructive if the path is without God's kind of love.Knowledge makes one haughty, arrogant, accusatory, vile, paranoid and lends to vain imaginations and evil thoughts about other people, looking down on people as inferior. Knowledge alone destroys. Paul was saying here the pursuit of knowledge apart from love is insight without perspective.Like a loaded gun shot aimlessly, so is knowledge and insight obtained with any root but God's kind of love.You see Jesus said in Matthew 6:33 for us to 'seek first the Kingdom of God (God's will and purpose) and His righteousness (right order, right perspective) and all of these things will be added'. Knowledge and insight are things.Jesus didn't say seek things. He said seek Him and the things will be added BY HIM! Why, because through Him all things arrive, are viewed, are used according to His will and purpose, right order and right perspective, according to HIS KINGDOM...not our thought, nor our vision, nor our feelings or vain view of life. His way, not our way. Our way leads to mistrusting people, paranoia, fear, isolation, vain imaginations, pride, haughtiness, arrogance, ambition, greed and every evil work. Knowledge alone only destroys. Paul was not talking to those who did not know a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, he was talking to christians, to church leaders, to us all.

I had a friend who got caught up in the pursuit of insight outside of God's kind of love. Suddenly my friend found that they were not seeing the people, the friends and loved ones like God sees them. They began to isolate themself and destroy relationships in their life all in the name of pursuit of knowledge and insight. Their pursuit without love brought only more trouble.

You see God's kind of love does not segment or isolate. God's kind of love in us is expressed because of our faith (which pleases God) and is only expressed as truthful, genuine love for people (God's priority, God's treasure) and especially for those in the family of God.
John said that if you don't love, unconditionally like God loves, those that you see, then how can you love God who don't see with natural eyes. You see, wisdom is only the principle thing when it follows the first commandment and Jesus instruction to us. There will be no other God (or pursuit) other than God, seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness. We call it living life in perspective. Our movement of pursuit has to flow with first thought and first fruit through that perspective. God's priority is 'for God so loved the World'. He gave it all. God loves people. People are His treasure. This is why John ties our love for people with our love for God. Faith is only expressed as God nature expressed. God is love. You know that your faith is living and alive when you are operating in God's definition of love, not a man's definition of love.Man's definition of love is manipulative, exclusionary, controlling, isolating leading to pride, destroyed relationships, evil thinking, evil speaking and evil acting. Man's kind of love is from a corrupt nature and can only breed corruption because of the seed from which it exists.Friend, if you find yourself in a place where either people are standing back from you, there is a reason. A life operated without love is a life with no orientation or right order. Perspective only comes from a first fruit relationship with God which leads to vision, purpose and destiny all in the context of God's kind of love. Faith can only be expressed through us when we demonstrate genuine love for people and especially for those in the family of God.Knowledge and insight without love boils down to foolishness because it is not obtain in God's right order.Such things may have some benefit for the moment, but have no impact in eternity.

Proverbs 24:4 can only be a reality in this life when obtained through proper perspective. Vision cannot happen without proper perspective. Nothing that we can carry to heaven and present to the Lord Jesus Christ happens without proper perspective which leads to expression of truthful, genuine love for all people and especially for those in the family of God already!

Here's to your life of proper perspective leading to genuine love for all people of which you will need precious and pleasant riches.

Love ya!
In Christ,
Brother Ben