Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world the love of the Father is not in them. 1 John 2:15
John once again talks about Love; what we set our hearts on and what can draw our hearts away from God. He warns us that ‘love for the world’ will cancel our love for God.
NO ONE can serve two masters. Matt 6:24
Derek Prince once told a story about a young Scandinavian woman, a pastor’s daughter who’d stayed with them. Barbara began to find life in the Pentecostal Church restrictive and dull. She was listening to her friends outside church and decided they were having more fun and enjoying life lots more than she was. She went to her parents and told them that she wasn’t going to be involved in Church anymore, she was going to try the things that her young friends were doing. Her parents wisely didn’t argue with her and drive her further away from them, instead they told her that they would pray for her.
Barbara’s dream. Soon after this she had a warning dream. She saw two cities, one with bright, flashing, neon lights and one with a strong, steady glow. A suave, sophisticated man invited her to come with him to the city with the bright flashing lights. Things started well, but as they progressed she noticed the lights of the city were becoming duller and the figure who was leading her was became uglier. Soon they were in a very dark and threatening part of the city and she realised with a shock that the figure who was leading her was none other than the devil himself. Meanwhile the light from the other city remained strong and steady. She woke up and realised that the dream had been a warning against her intended course, her parents prayers had been answered.
‘Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world SQUEEZES OUT love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world – wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important – has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all it’s wanting, wanting, wanting is on its way out — but who ever does what God wants is set for eternity’. 1 John 2:15-17 MSG
The moral of the story is that ‘love of the world’ disappoints and even destroys! May you find the true light of God’s love that never fades in your life today.
God bless and keep you.