The Constitution Of The Love Of God

"Knowledge puffeth up but charity edifieth"

(I Corinthians 8:1)

by: Zecharias E. Castro

Knowledge can make you become a leader and mentor to some

but love will cause you to be a father and mother to all.

Knowledge can make you become a builder of eye-pleasing sights

but love will cause you to be a mender of heartbroken lives.

Knowledge can make you become a finger that now points the way

but love can now make you be a hand that can guide day by day.

Knowledge can bring to your life great praise from the children of dust

but love can make you become a builder of bridges of trust.

Knowledge can cause you to rise successfully far above all

but love brings down paradise to us who've been cursed by the fall.

Knowledge can make you be rich and get you the world's admiration

but love makes your neighbor be rich through you and fulfills its vocation.

Knowledge has said to us all: "Arise and compete with each other"

but love now says to my soul: "Encourage and build one another".

Knowledge will make me believe the world needs my strength to survive

but love will make me understand that due to all things I'm alive.

Knowledge will cause me to think: "The world needs to hear what I say"

but love will cause me to see there's much for which I need to pray.

Knowledge will show you your rights so that you may watch one another

but love will show your defence is doing your best for each other.

Knowledge can make you become a hill with a great flowing fountain

but love will teach you to be the valley that holds every mountain.

Knowledge is good to your soul so let now your mind be adorn

love, though, is good to us all and is why God lets us be born.

Knowledge can now serve us well but love has just so much to tell

with knowledge I rise or I fall but love makes me now lift up all.

Use then your knowledge to know to which of these loves I'm referring

Self-love is now disappearing for only God's love I'm now hearing.

Self-love made Lucifer fall when he sought his own self-promotion

God's Love can cause men to rise cause Christ for Himself sought demotion.