1 Corinthians 8:1b English Standard Version (ESV) we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.
Since knowledge puffs up and love builds up, then our focus should be on the love, not the knowledge.
John 15:10 English Standard Version (ESV) If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
1 John 2:10 English Standard Version (ESV) Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him[it] there is no cause for stumbling.
John 8:31 English Standard Version
The Truth Will Set You Free
31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
The abiding presence, the Word, the Truth, and the Light are all required to conform us to the will of God for His Son Jesus Christ. Once we accept that what is happening to us is for His benefit, we might stop looking at this as things that benefit us.
1 John 2:14 English Standard Version (ESV) I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
Have we overcome the evil one? Father is the mature state of a young man. Notice they have matured enough to know “Him” whereas the strong young men has the Word abiding and overcomes the evil one.
The maturing process or conformance, happens by the abiding presence of all three, word, truth and light. Each has its own effect upon the soul. It is not enough to focus on just one aspect of His abiding presence, it takes all three.
1 Corinthians 2:11 English Standard Version (ESV) For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.