Things Vs. Love
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Lost in Limbo
When two people are in love, they don't really care about other things; just about each other. They are completely in love. But, if they fall out of love or choose divorce, suddenly things matter--the furniture, the card table--who owns what? So with church history. The first believers didn't have much, but they possessed all things. They were in love with God. Things didn't matter. They had so much more. But as church history went on, it changed. The church began to get wealth, power, status, and many other things. When you are in love, you don't care much about things, but once things become important, you are not in love. So with us. When you first came to the Lord you didn't care. You had Him and that was enough. Maybe now you've become wrapped up in things. When your heart is on these many things you fall out of love with God. Put away your things, clear out that space in your heart, get back to the love you had for Him, because those who are in love are free from things.

Today's Mission
Turn away from these things that have taken your attention from God. Fill yourself up with His love.

1 John 2:15-17
15 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.
16 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.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.

HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND WEEKEND