OK, so my week is ticking too quickly by. The answer to my dilemma (see last post) may be found in the one lectionary passage for this Sunday that I wasn't considering including!
Philippians 3:1-11
I thank my God every time I remember
you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy
because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until
now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you
will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
It is right for me to feel this way
about all of you, since I have you in my heart and, whether I am in
chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in
God’s grace with me. God can testify how I long for all of you with
the affection of Christ Jesus.
And this is my prayer: that your love
may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that
you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless
for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that
comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.
Some initial thoughts ...
The love that we need in the midst of the darkness of life (with all its pain, anxiety, troubles, ...) is a love that abounds "more and more in knowledge and depth of insight." For it is only with that sort of love that we can discern what is best and pure and blameless.
We all say that we love God ... and we may even claim that we love our neighbors ... but are we truly seeking for our love to abound in knowledge and depth of insight? What are we doing for our love to grow in this way?
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