1 John 2:15
Don’t love the world
nor the things in the world.
If anyone loves the world,
the love of the father is not in him.
The word used here for love – ἀγαπᾶτε (agapate) (Verb – Present Imperative Active – 2nd Person Plural) is translated with: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem.
So it is a love with a preference. Love that is sympathetic to something.
In this loving all other things are ignored and one is clearly focused on the world.
What do we mean by that world’?
▪︎The lust of the flesh,
▪︎ the lust of our eyes.
▪︎That which caresses our flesh and pleases our eyes.
It is being attached to the material.
Are we not called to possess as non-possessors?
The latter is not the case here. No, just one passion: work, or our name, or career, or pleasure, or women, or friends. Yes that world!
Do you want that? You may want to embrace it all, but know one thing… it will all pass.
Why not take the apostolic admonition to heart and forsake the world?
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