Truth in Love

I love truth and knowledge and wisdom.  

In the Spirit I love them because I want to love God with all my mind, and the truth shows me more about him and his ways.
In the Spirit I love them because I love righteousness and want to understand it more fully.
In the Spirit I love them because God sanctifies us by his truth, and I want to be completely devoted to God and his glory.
In the Spirit I love them because I love to delight in them with others, knowing that God's word is a light to our path, leading us in pleasant places.
In the Spirit I love them because they are so beautiful in their arrangement and pleasant in themselves.  
In the Spirit I love them because I hate lies and how they attempt to distort reality and blind us.
In the Spirit I love them because Jesus is the Truth and his Spirit is the Spirit of truth, and the Father is the God of truth.

But,

In the flesh I love them because I love being able to be right.
In the flesh I love them because I love a massive distraction from sacrificially loving God and people.
In the flesh I love them because they can be a means of personal gain.
In the flesh I love them because knowing stuff makes me feel good about myself.

This knowledge fills me up like a balloon waiting to be popped, but truth-in-love fills me up like a fountain waiting to overflow.  I want all my desire for truth to be undergirded by love for God and love for others.  

I delight in the truth that because I am justified in Christ I don't have to try to prove myself to be right.  
I delight in the truth that God has sacrificially loved me first, and is teaching me to be like him.
I delight in the truth that no amount of personal gain I can secure for myself can match the gain God has promised to me in Christ in the resurrection.  
I delight in the truth that my feeling good about myself doesn't depend on how much I know, but on how fully I am known and loved by God in Christ.

This truth is for all, to be freely received by turning from the lies and daring to believe it.