Jan BoshoffLust Not Covet Not Love Not the World
6min2019 JAN 17
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Every man is the slave of his own ambitions and desires. The moment you fall in love with someone or something you become enslaved. The more you love that object or person, the more you become obsessed with it, the more it controls you. It takes over your mind and you can become irrational about. In the end it can totally destroy you. It is for good reason that the commandment says:”Do not covet” The apostle John wrote in 1 John 2:15 “Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. 17The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.” If we love anything more than Jesus, then we are not worthy of Him and we will not enter His kingdom. Jesus said:”He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me;...