DCLM Higher Everyday 18 December 2024 — Love Not The World
DCLM Higher Everyday 18 December 2024 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Disciplined For Loose Lips
Topic: Love Not The World
Text: 1 John 2:15-17
15Love 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.
17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Key Verse: “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” (1 John 2:16).
Message
The prodigal son wanted to experience the world so he requested that his father should give him his own inheritance. He collected it and wasted all he had trying to satisfy himself with all sorts of pleasures but at the end he was empty. Like the prodigal son, there are a lot of Christian youths that complain about holiness and wanting to explore the world of alcohol, immorality, drugs, smoking, gambling, examination malpractice, cultism, internet fraud and so on. In the process of basking in the allurements of the world, many youths have met their untimely death. Apostle Paul had to cry out that, “Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world…” (2 Timothy 4:10). Many are still forsaking the Lord today.
Also Read: Open Heaven 17 December 2024 – Disciplined For Loose Lips
As believing youths, we must reject every attempt to allow our hearts to be overtaken with the fanfare of this world but focus on serving God and living the holy life, daily. Make up your mind to live for God and shun worldly or sinful practices in order to make heaven.
Quote: Shun worldly or sinful practices
Challenge: Focus on serving God.
Prayer for today: Lord, teach me to love the things of God only.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
