Godly Love Means Obedience

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)



Where learning begins:
At the feet of the Master.
As a disciple.
To profit from the wisdom
That is garnered obeying.

About this poem

Godly love is Covenantal Love, the love between God and his people. Godly Love is worship of and obedience to the Holy Spirit. It is what the Holy Trinity of Oneness commands us to do. It is that teaching, learning, and knowledge of Oneness that gives us Wisdom and Understanding.

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Written on May 11, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on May 11, 2022

Modified by karlcfolkes on July 24, 2022

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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  • teril
    I am continuing to think of the idea: wisdom as "garnered obeying."
    LikeReply1 year ago

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