As I looked at this I kept seeing the importance for us as believers not get caught up in the silliness of this world and the arguments that take place. As we are growing and increasing in our knowledge we can see how our behavior can be looked at and could cause people to stumble. As we live our lives learning to be like Christ the Holy Spirit will guide us in our behavior and we will see how all things aren't needing our opinion but our silence.
Our number one goal is to love and know God and live in this world using the Holy Spirit to lead us into right living. This takes dying to self and opening our hearts for love. James puts it a great way in James chapter 4 verse 4 when he said, "You adulterers. Don't you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God." We cannot desire to believe in Christ and try and keep parts of our old lives. That doesn't mean our personality, which God made changes, it means what we focus on changing and we don't try and please ourselves but God.
We need to believe that we are new creations in Christ and we need to release the old struggles we had and seek new life that Jesus has given us. This won't be done on our own strength, it can only be done with God's help. And He has given us so much help, all we need to do is use it by, asking, seeking and knocking. Read His word for transformation not just information. we can't worry about our knowledge, we need to ask God to reveal more so we can apply it to our lives. Pray and listen to the Holy Spirit who is our guide and comforter. He will only give us what is good. And finally, remember that our learning will be forever, there is no time of knowing it all, when we can say I'm done. The excitement is us seeing Gods work in every situation in our lives and us going to God as our Father. Keep working and make sure we are aware of the little things this world wants us to join in on that may cause to be stumbling blocks for the Kingdom. Amen