to be known/ to know...

 

"If any want to boast, there's just one way

within this world where we think we're top dogs;

& that's to boast that we know, not the day

or hour of big events, methods and cogs!

But just the kind of knowing that a child

can have of its own Mum or Dad, that is

depending not on "knowledge", for its style 

develops knowledge slowly, piece by peace.

If anything, the parents know much more

about the child, and how it was conceived 

in secret trysts between them, and what for?

Their love and knowledge has to be believed

or acted on, by child, before it can

know anything, or even learn to talk.

But it has just responded; doesn’t plan,

and grasp, and take, and hunt down what it stalked.

Not that those things won't come, in God's good time,

but they're built on a found-ation of love,

of seeing good and growing it - sublime,

of being drawn up from who is above.

It doesn't work when driven from below,

when motivated by those lower things.

The caterpillar doesn’t fly, or show

off, with what's stuck on, even if they're wings.

The older methods used for lower life

must be sloughed off, it will seem like a tomb

is entered, but creation here is rife

with re-creating in each "Yah way" room!

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"If any want to boast, 

    they should boast that they know and understand me,

because my love is constant,

    and I do what is just and right.

These are the things that please me.

I, the Lord, have spoken.” (see Jem 9:12-25, Philippians 3:3, Jeremiah 4:22, 1 Cor 1:19-31)

Now about food sacrificed to idols: we know that ‘We all possess knowledge.’ But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. But whoever loves God is known by God.  1Cor8:1-3

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