-Abundantly abounding love. Knowledgeable discerning love. What are we talking about here? Love for God? One another? Our neighbors? Love for stuff?
-Having been made in the image of the One Who IS Love, like Him, we all love. We are created with the capacity to give our heart away for the sake of something or someone else, to give away our time and our service and to devote ourselves to that. Thing. The problem is, our love-meter is broken. We are broken. We tend to love primary things less than we should (or not at all) and tertiary (even evil) things more than we should. What Paul is diligently asking God to do here is to cause these believers' love to become more like His, such that as their capacity to love grows and their love in general becomes more knowledgeable and discerning that they are loving more of what God wants them to love and loving less the things He does not. This is no doubt the essence of the good work He has begun in their lives and in the those of all who trust in Christ and follow Him. God is relentlessly re-producing His agape love in the lives of every one of His people. We are little love hotspots, and collectively we are meant to be a mighty network of God’s amazing blessing love unleashed on a world that is desperately looking for love in all the wrong places. Which is precisely why our own love must first be transformed.
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