Next we come to Pergamum. Here we have an awful state of
mixture, contamination, compromise, entanglement with evil things. If we seek
for the cause, we find that the church in Pergamum has not discriminated between
the things that differ, between what is of the Lord and what is not. It has
compromised by reason of defective spiritual sight, and so the issue here, the
matter of first love, is that first love is a discerning love.
sounds familar<<
There is much
about that in the Bible. Paul is rich on the matter of discerning love.
"...having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the
hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the
saints" (Eph. 1:18). "The eyes of your heart enlightened"
discerning love. Love is as far removed from blindness as heaven from earth.
"Love is blind"? No - not true love.
The fact is that true love sees everything,
but transcends everything. The love of Christ for His disciples was not blind
love that did not know His men, love that was duped, deceived, misled, but
eventually found out that they were not the men He thought they were. No,
"he... knew what was in man" (John 2:24). His love saw everything,
could tell them beforehand exactly what they would do; but love persisted in
face of it all. Love is a great seeing thing.
Austin Sparks
The ability to discern is of the Spirit. Love is as well it;s not humanistic love we're speaking of but a divine one.The world can not provided it, it;s mere stumbling operation, it;s about what others can take from another,as we can see the demise here and perhaps well into the future. I enjoy sparks writings, a throughtful person of faith.
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