Do not love the world or the things in the world - 1 John 2:15.
God wants us not to love the world or the things of the world but to love Him. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' there is no commandment greater than these - Mark 12:30-31.
We will have a form of godliness but deny its power if we love the world. There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God - having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people - 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
The love of money is the root of all evil. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows - 1 Timothy 6:10. We cannot serve both God and riches. No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon - Matthew 6:24. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him - 1 John 2:15. Let us love God with all our heart, mind and soul more than anything else in this world.
PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us love You with all our heart, mind and soul and not love the world or the things of the world. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
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