Title
Knowledge Without Love is Useless
Scripture
Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
(1 Corinthians 8:1)
Devotional
We, like the Corinthians are often certain about things that are uncertain. They for example, knew that eating certain things was wrong. They were not wrong. I have found that there are few things that I can hold to with absolute dogma. There is absolutely nothing that I can hold to with arrogant dogma. The moment I do, God deals with my arrogance and reveals my ignorance. Knowledge truly has a tendency to puff up—especially among those who think that they may know something more than their peers. It often seems that the most arrogant knowledge is held by those who have the least knowledge. Those who know the least know it the loudest. The only thing worse than a little knowledge is arrogant knowledge. Arrogance holds to an ignorant bias that is next to impossible to break. Knowledge without love is useless. Love even without knowledge is teachable. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.