Exodus 4
This is one of those passages that has a very Matrix feel to it, if I may. It's God changing the very state of matter and declaring lordship over reality itself. If God says the stick is a snake, it's a snake in reality. You know you're on the edge of something wonderful and scary and awe inspiring and potentially deadly when God begins to pull back the cover of "reality" to show us Reality.
So, when we hear Jesus say that least is greatest and death is life, it is an echo. He is not merely speaking in moral platitudes. He is peeling back the same cover and giving us a glimpse of the same reality, and it's every bit as wonderful and scary and awe inspiring and potentially deadly as picking up a snake by its tail.
1 Corinthians 8
Had to hit this one too.
"This 'knowledge' puffs up, but love builds up." (v1b)
This is a killer in the "information age". You get here the warning of Jesus against the "leaven of the pharisees". Puffing gives something the appearance of being bigger than it is without any substance being added. Building up, on the other hand, means you're adding actual "stuff" to something to make it bigger. If we could learn to despise knowledge without love (not in casting off knowledge but in adding love), we could stem the tide of our puffing and begin actually building.
We read and study and learn, and then we imagine we know something (v2). Let's not be prideful of our puffing or deceived by the puffiness of those who seem to have great knowledge. Rather, love God (v3).
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