TRANSFORMING KNOWLEDGE
INTO LOVE AND FORGIVENESS
KNOWLEDGE is a great thing
Particularly the KNOWLEDGE
Of the Scriptures
The Sadducees and Pharisees
Of yesteryear
Can tell you that
And almost ALL current preachers-
priests-and men and women of God
CAN tell you that too
But if you are
NOT applying the SCRIPTURES
To the living of your life
That knowledge is meaningless
“I will give thanks to you
O Lord
With all my heart
For you have heard
The WORDS of my mouth”
KNOW the Scriptures
But apply them
And LIVE them in your life too
We should be TRANSFORMED
Into miniature versions of Christ
In our own little corner
Of the world
Transformed into LOVE
Transformed into FORGIVENESS
Just like Jesus
“Do NOT conform
To the pattern of this world
But be transformed
By the RENEWING
Of your mind
Then you will be able
To test and approve
What GOD'S WILL is
His good-pleasing
And PERFECT WILL” Romans 12:2
And God wants us
To be TRANSFORMED into
MINIATURE walking-talking examples-
OF CHRIST
OF LOVE AND FORGIVENESS
“And we ALL
Who with unveiled faces
CONTEMPLATE the Lord's GLORY
And being transformed
INTO HIS IMAGE
With everlasting glory
Which comes from the Lord
Who is the SPIRIT” 2 Corinthians 3:18
In our spiritual lives
We all come to the DEEPER KNOWLEDGE
That we are KNOWN
In the mind of God
And he knows each of us
By name
“But now
This is what the Lord says-
He who removed you-Jacob
He who formed you-Israel
'DO not fear
For I have redeemed you
I have CALLED YOU by name
You are mine'” Isaiah 43:1
Called by name
By the one
WHO IS LOVE
WHO IS FORGIVENESS
This knowledge brings us
To our knees in HUMILITY
And worship
Let us all
PRAY to the Lord
To use our knowledge
To TRANSFORM US
Into miniature versions of CHRIST
AND OF LOVE AND FORGIVENESS
In Jesus' name we PRAY
Robert P. Wallman
2-19-16 and 1-08-2022
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Steve Givens
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