Words of Encouragement February - 16 - 2003
Love for things, especially temporary ones, can sure get us into trouble. Even worse, we can begin to think they will make us happy or fill the empty places in our hearts. But if we really sink our hopes and dreams in our Heavenly Father, we are attached to eternity and what we need most is always with us!
John tells us in 1 John 2:15-16 about the kind of love we need to have.
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.
Let us pray.
Give us wisdom, Holy God, to invest in you and things that matter. We confess to you that our eyes and our hearts are often distracted by the glitzy stuff that is temporary. By your Spirit, O Father, stir our hearts to yearn for you.
In the precious name of Jesus We pray.
Amen.