Dream a little Dream (part 3)

And how do I come to understand exactly what Zion means? I can read all the abstracts, all the commentaries, go to all the seminars and classes offered by various churches and still be unclear as to what Zion is. I believe that is the way God wants it. Not that He deliberately wants to muddy the waters, but that He wants us to realize that for all the uses I have for knowledge, that unless I use it according to His way and for the testimony of Him, knowledge is worthless. Knowledge is only to be used as a combative tool to protect us against untruths of satan, not to build our character. Living our lives in the Spirit does that. So that in Jesus' terms knowledge = truth and truth = understanding God's greatness = life and finally life + Spirit = character. This is what I see over and over, and most explicitly in Paul's letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 8:1) when he says, "Knowledge puffs up but love builds up". It is not what I know that is of major concern to God, although He doews what me to come to know Him, becasue He knows that knowledge comes by reading what He says in His Word. The more I read, the more I know. And the more I realize the less I know. And if I use God's knowledge right, I am humbled in its granduer. The main item God wants of me is love, and the resultant obedience. He wants me to have Moses' attitude in Exodus 24:7, "He took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the peole: and they said, "All that he LORD hath said will we do and be obedient." God wants me to be obedient in all things both big and small.