Love With Knowledge And Discernment

"And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment."  Philippians 1:9.  Paul's prayer for the church is constant.  Here he prays that the Philippians may abound in love.  We are taught to love.  Love is one of the many wonderful attributes of God.  Without His love for us, we would be incapable of loving.  To be as He is, we must love.  But, we must have a knowledge of love.  With that knowledge, comes a purpose for loving.  We must love for the right reason.  We are to love that which is good.  We must not love that which is evil.  We must be able to love despite the flaws in the character of another.  Our love for them and their love for us will seek to help correct those flaws.  God's love for us delivers us to a higher plane of understanding ourselves and the battles that we must fight.  Our love for one another will remove us from false judgment, and motivate us to help and encourage each other.  As we come to a knowledge of Christ's love, we will be able to love each other as Christ has loved us.