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Where’s The Love?



  Do we love too many things? Love is something they say you can’t have enough of. In some ways that is right, but we also understand that sometimes love needs to be singular.  If your spouse loves another person chances, are you not going to be too happy. 

  That is why we need to consider 1 John 2:15 which tells us, “Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” Here we are told that our love for the world is a contradiction to loving God. The analogy of an unfaithful spouse is used time and time again to show the relationship to God and his wandering people. When we love the world, it keep us from loving God.

  So how do we know if we are flirting with the world?  It works the same as any relationship. When we spend more time with them, we seek to please another rather than the one we should love, when we focus our love elsewhere. When we take for granted the one that has done so much for us.

 So, are we in love with the world and not our Lord? If someone were to look at our lives would they see who we really are enamored with? Who do we want to be with? Who do we long to please.

Where is our love focused?


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