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1 John 2
speaks often of love. There are multiple
dimensions of love, however. In fact,
there is a bit of dichotomy with respect to love. We often hear that love must be
inclusive. John doesn’t teach that way.
What John
does say is that we are to love our brother and sister. If someone is in Christ, then they are our
brother or sister. If they are truly in
Christ, then they are living like Him.
What does it say about us if we cannot bring ourselves to love someone
who is living like Christ? John is
correct when he teaches that we walk in darkness when we have hatred in our
hearts towards a brother or sister in Christ.
We must be
careful with love, though. John warns us
to be careful to not love the world. We
shouldn’t love the things of the world.
The lust of our eyes and the lust of our heart – our love for the things
of the world – can bring chaos into our life.
Such love is a destructive influence in our life. It wrestles our love of God away from our
focus and replaces it with an inferior love.
Elsewhere in
the Bible we hear that God is love. When
we are focused on Him, we truly experience love in that we truly experience
Him. When we allow our focus to shift onto
the world, however, our love turns into lust and a great thing is placed with a
far inferior thing. True love – a love
unlike any other – comes to us when we are walking in His light.
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