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This may be why our lives are so
difficult…we tend to love the world. Hard not to…it’s where we live.
What’s not to love? Ice cream? Football? Music?
Even God loves grandchildren! But, John is referring to “the lust of the flesh (physical appetite) and the lust of the
eyes (emotional appetite) and the boastful pride of life (spiritual
appetite). None of
that comes from God.
Yes, there is plenty of
that in the world as well.
Forgive the crass
example but, Jim Croce wrote a song that included these words: “five short minutes of loving got me
twenty long years in jail”. The (not so hidden) inference is all the sex in
the world can’t last long enough to fully satisfy. The same is true of every
other passion the world offers us. In fact, John says “The world is passing away, and also its lusts; And, so it goes…with the pleasures of
this world
But…” the one who does
the will of God lives forever”.
Forever is a long time.
We do we do than…when all the things we loved are gone? If we build our lives
around things that can’t last, our world will end up empty. Then, what do we hold
on to? It could be a troubled time.
So, ultimately, John
says we need “an
anointing from the Holy One that will abide in us… so that we may also abide in
the Son and in the Father”. Only then, can we fall “out of love”
with the world and fall in love with the things that truly last.
Live
boldly out there today…
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