A well respected friend sent me
this poser yesterday.—“A 7yr old Sunday school boy asked his teacher, 1st John
2:15-16 says "do not love the world" but John 3:16 says "for God
so loved the world". So why did God love the world and He is preventing us
from loving it too? If you were the teacher what would be your answer? Every
believer's contribution is required”
Here was my humble contribution:
The Love of the Almighty for the
world is the love that that considers only what is of spiritual benefit to the
one loved not what indulges him. Such love is severe and not at all near the
corrupted and emotional concept of love as men would like to have it.
When however we are warned not to
love the world, it means that we have to abide by the first Commandment which
says we should have no other gods. Our love should be mainly to the Almighty
and His Commandments and we are to avoid undue attachment to anything in this
world. This is to our spiritual advantage because whoever is entangled with
anything of this world will be encumbered in his spiritual ascent. When such a
person leaves the flesh he will be tied to the earth instead of ascending to
Heaven! However if we put God first in reverential love and loyalty, then when
we leave the flesh, this love for God will draw us up to the Eternal Gardens of
our God! That was why we were admonished 2000 years ago to put our treasures in
Heaven and not on earth!
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