For every soul that has a heart beat – there is has an important thing that flows through it called Love. Lover is housed in every one of us. None can deny a lover in them. What kind of Lover am I ? The creator of this world sent the Lover of my Soul – Jesus and redeemed us from world and brought us into the Kingdom of His Love. Are you responding to the Lover of your soul loving the things that He called you for? Fights goes on between the lover of the Flesh and Lover of the Soul. Fight goes on between the flesh and Spirit, Renewal has to happen every day . Lover of the world in us has to be suppressed on every aspect of life. Why? – Because Love for this world drifts us away from the Love of God. Lover of the world in you always wants to snatch you away from the Lover of the soul. Bible tells us that when you love the world , you do not have the love of the Father in you. How do you identify your love for this world ? How do you identify your love for the things that world offers you? How do you identify the Lover of the world in you? To stay close to the Love of the Father, To stay Close to the Lover of my Soul – I need to stay from the Love the world offers.
What does the world offer ? / How to do you identify that you are in love with the world?
Characteristics of Worldly Love :
1. Craving for Physical pleasure :
○ Cherishing the world or the things that are in the world
○ Lust of the flesh
○ Craving for sensual gratification , sensual lust
○ Forbidden cravings
○ craving for whatever the body feels
○ Selfish desires : wanting to please our sinful selves
○ Greed
2. Craving for everything we see
○ Greedy longings of the mind
○ the craving for whatever the eye sees
○ Craving for extravagant lifestyle that doesn’t have good motives
○ Craving for what entices the eyes
3. Taking Pride in our achievements
○ Pride of life , Arrogant pride of one’s possessions
○ Passionate desires
○ Pretentious life
○ Obsession with status and ones own status
4. Taking Pride in our possessions
○ assurance in one’s own resources
○ Assurance in the stability of earthly things
○ Being too proud of what you have
What’s the quality the world offers? / What kind of warranty it offers?/ Lifecycle of World ?
• Fades away – passing away
• No guarantee
• Disappears
• No remains forever
• Incompatible
The worldy love is not permanent. World fades aways , Everything in it fades away. We need to crave for things that live forever. When you live to please God, when you do what pleases God – you will live forever. God is permanent, The things of God are permanent. Salvation is permanent . Heaven is permanent. Will of God is permanent. The world may leave you and forsake you but God in Heaven will never leave you nor forsake you. The world may lie to you and forget you all the promises offered to you but God in Heaven never forgets you , everything He has offered – He will not forget. Because He is not a man to lie!
We need to make choice today whether you flow with the Causes of the world that ends up with no remains or stick with the one who lives forever and never forsakes you? Since we belong to the Father lets seek after what He has for us! Lets thrive to be the children of the Father who is from the beginning , lets be the young men and women living like strong ones who have the word of God in us and live like the one who conquered the evil one ! Lets overcome the lusts of the world with word of God treasured in our hearts. I need to be seeking the will of God and display the character as the lover of God rather than running after the faded glory of the world and getting lost in the world that passes away with no remains whatsoever.
Let you be identified always with the Lover of your Soul – Jesus by choosing to walk in Spirit not in flesh!
Prayer 🙏🏻
Father in Jesus Name through the Jesus you have made me more than conqueror in my life, help me always seek after the heart desires of my Father and do the will of God every aspect of life without getting into the lusts of flesh in Jesus Name amen.
Bible references:
“Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.”
1 John 2:15-17 NLT
“Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world–the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one’s own resources or in the stability of earthly things]–these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself]. And the world passes away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings (the passionate desires, the lust) of it; but he who does the will of God and carries out His purposes in his life abides (remains) forever.”
1 John 2:15-17 AMPC
“Don’t love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them. Everything that is in the world—the craving for whatever the body feels, the craving for whatever the eyes see and the arrogant pride in one’s possessions—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world and its cravings are passing away, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.”
1 John 2:15-17 CEB
“This is all there is in the world: wanting to please our sinful selves, wanting the sinful things we see, and being too proud of what we have. But none of these comes from the Father. They come from the world.”
1 John 2:16 ERV
“Not everything that the world offers—physical gratification, greed, and extravagant lifestyles—comes from the Father. It comes from the world, and”
1 John 2:16 GW
“For all that is in the world, sensual lust, enticement for the eyes, and a pretentious life, is not from the Father but is from the world.”
1 John 2:16 NABRE
“These are the ways of the world: wanting to please our sinful selves, wanting the sinful things we see, and being too proud of what we have. None of these come from the Father, but all of them come from the world.”
1 John 2:16 NCV
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