Love Not The World

The call of Christ is a call to undivided love. Scripture does not present the Christian life as a negotiation between two competing loyalties, but as a decisive turning of the heart toward God. The apostle John speaks with unmistakable clarity: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.” This is not the voice of legalism, nor the burden of religious severity. It is the voice of a loving Father who knows that the world’s promises are empty, its pleasures fleeting, and its rewards corruptible.