Which Love?

"Looking for love? Some loves are a curse - some are a blessing. Which love do we choose?

Some search for a Hollywood style love. Mostly it's fake, fleshly, and destructive.

Finding the right kind of love can make life so much richer. There's blessing in relationships with godly friends, in a lifelong commitment in marriage. The ultimate love relationship is to know God.

Sadly, some know only a love that will bring ruin and loss. This is a love NOT to have: 1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

"World", here, means the system and way of life that is led by satan, 2 Corinthians 4:4 …the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not. It speaks of the evil world system. At the heart of it is a wanting of sin; a refusing of God. John does not say: ""Don't love the world too much"" but he says, "Do not love the world at all".

The love of the world is filled with fleshly appetites and selfish pride. The world lies in the grip of the evil one, 1 John 5:19. The world is what appeals to the flesh, and works against God. The world hates Christ and real Christians. The love of the world draws people like a magnet. Ungodly influences and sinful ways bring them hurt and shame.

To love the world and its things is an empty love, with short-lived pleasures. Moses saw what the love of the world looked like...