Phil 1:9-11
9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.
Just a quick reflection on my previous blog...I am convicted of my lack of prayer for my fellow saints, these include for me, students, fellow youth workers, family and friends. I need to be more committed to prayer...moving on...
It is interesting to me that the kind of love that Paul is praying for his friends is more than just emotions (although I would argue not less). It is a love that includes good thinking (knowledge and depth of insight). It is also active (filled with the fruit of righteousness). Certainly by the way that Paul responds in the previous verses it is also emotive. Whatever the case, the love that Paul is praying for the Philippians is rich and deep and one that while given by God's grace (he would not be praying for it if that was not the case) is one that we are active in growing as well. It doesn't just happen which makes me think it stands the test of time and difficulties. Lord, may this be the type of love that grows in my heart...in our hearts.
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Hey Sid, good to see you blogging again (or blevoing), even though I was curious as to see what other thoughts would come out on the role of women. I am hoping to move to Lethbridge for the summer, and if you aren't too busy with speaking, I would love to get together with you.
One thing that really comes to my mind with this passage is that our love is to abound so that we mayb be pure and blameless. It is impossible, I think, to be pure out of fear or just to obey rules. But the deep love that Paul talks here is capable of doing that. In my female relationships, it is so much easier to remain pure if I have a deep love, whereas if I don't, I am so tempted to lose that sexual/physical purity.
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