Love not the world
1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
We are told to love, but we are never told to love tangible THINGS.
We are told to love, but not to love this world.
We are to LOVE God.
We are to LOVE each other.
When we love we care. When we care we become vulnerable to loss.
Our God understands loss, our God understands heart ache. Throughout the Bible we can see over and over our God reaching out to us in LOVE, over and over as a parent trying to correct the course of a wayward child- why? Because HE LOVES US.
He loves us- remember this--
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH.
This is not an uncaring God.
This is not an unloving God.
This is a God that LOVES deeply, this is a God who LOVES and has given us the ability to love. Without God we do NOT have the ability to love, truly love because HE who is our creator is also the author of love, HE IS LOVE.
1Jn 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
And this…
1Jn 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
If we do not love, we do not KNOW God.
If we LOVE, we know God.
God IS love.
Is it any wonder that if we KNOW God we keep His Commandments because they are LOVE as HE the giver of them IS LOVE.
Knowing God is knowing love.
Love isn't this idealized messed up concept people have invented with Satan's help. Love isn't something unique to give out sparingly. Love isn't something to give only to get it back. Love IS God. Love is something our God wants us to have and love is something God wants us to have but only have it to GIVE it to Him and to others, not to hoard.
We live in a world of SELF loving and it's no wonder- it's a world ruled but the greatest lover of self- Satan.
We live in a world wanting others to love us. We cry out to be loved by others. But in truth others cannot love us in the way that God can love us- perfectly. Whenever we seek love from others we are seeking unconditional love aren't we? What good is love giving grudgingly? Is that love? We say love hurts and in truth it hurts a lot for many reasons.
We have a NEED to be loved and it's a need that can ONLY be filled by God in its truest sense.
1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Our LOVE must not be the warped love that this world knows.
Our LOVE must not be a love for this world.
Our LOVE must be a love of GOD and only GOD, and from that love of God - love for others- not for the things that surround us in this world, not for this world.
Please LORD help us to LOVE, to KNOW YOU!
ALL BY YOUR GRACE, all by YOUR MERCY, all through YOUR LOVE!!!!!!!
We are told to love, but we are never told to love tangible THINGS.
We are told to love, but not to love this world.
We are to LOVE God.
We are to LOVE each other.
When we love we care. When we care we become vulnerable to loss.
Our God understands loss, our God understands heart ache. Throughout the Bible we can see over and over our God reaching out to us in LOVE, over and over as a parent trying to correct the course of a wayward child- why? Because HE LOVES US.
He loves us- remember this--
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH.
This is not an uncaring God.
This is not an unloving God.
This is a God that LOVES deeply, this is a God who LOVES and has given us the ability to love. Without God we do NOT have the ability to love, truly love because HE who is our creator is also the author of love, HE IS LOVE.
1Jn 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
And this…
1Jn 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
If we do not love, we do not KNOW God.
If we LOVE, we know God.
God IS love.
Is it any wonder that if we KNOW God we keep His Commandments because they are LOVE as HE the giver of them IS LOVE.
Knowing God is knowing love.
Love isn't this idealized messed up concept people have invented with Satan's help. Love isn't something unique to give out sparingly. Love isn't something to give only to get it back. Love IS God. Love is something our God wants us to have and love is something God wants us to have but only have it to GIVE it to Him and to others, not to hoard.
We live in a world of SELF loving and it's no wonder- it's a world ruled but the greatest lover of self- Satan.
We live in a world wanting others to love us. We cry out to be loved by others. But in truth others cannot love us in the way that God can love us- perfectly. Whenever we seek love from others we are seeking unconditional love aren't we? What good is love giving grudgingly? Is that love? We say love hurts and in truth it hurts a lot for many reasons.
We have a NEED to be loved and it's a need that can ONLY be filled by God in its truest sense.
1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Our LOVE must not be the warped love that this world knows.
Our LOVE must not be a love for this world.
Our LOVE must be a love of GOD and only GOD, and from that love of God - love for others- not for the things that surround us in this world, not for this world.
Please LORD help us to LOVE, to KNOW YOU!
ALL BY YOUR GRACE, all by YOUR MERCY, all through YOUR LOVE!!!!!!!