Do Not Love the World

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes are the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever.- 1 John 2:15-17

God calls us to no love the things of this world. I know it is a hard temptation to stray from the patterns of the world. Satan loves to use materialism and idolatry to drag us away from the father. We can't continue to let this happen. John says in this passage if anyone loves the world they don't love the father. See, when we start to love the things of this world like clothes, cars, money, tv, gossip magazines, etc, we start to push our love for the father away. If half of the christians I knew, including myself, spent as much time getting to know and love the father as they did on worldly things, the church would be different. We have to remember that the things of the flesh are only temporary and they will pas away. The kingdom of god is eternal. We must start to focus our attention and our time on the things that matter. This is my pray for all of us today.