Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. - 1 John 2v15
World love can be more than just a theoretical statement. It can be a real, down to earth problem. Paul wrote of a one time co-worker – ‘For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to
This is the key issue with world love. It has very real repercussions. World love draws us away from God love. We can’t love both God and the things of the world. Love for them is mutually exclusive. We can’t have them both.
John takes it a step further and lays it on the line, ‘If anyone loves the world he love of the Father is not in him.’
It is easy to get caught in the trap of world love. It is always there right in front of us. It is appealing. Its calls out to us to love it. ‘Everyone else’ loves it. It is hard to us to draw the line and not love something so obvious and so appealing.
Still, we cannot afford to love the world or its stuff. Our minds need to always be not on the temporal visible things we see around us, but on the invisible, eternal things that we cannot see.
Beware of world love. The only way to fight it is to deepen our love for God.
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