He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
1 John 2:15a
Do not love the world or anything in the world
1 John 4:4
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
Thought:
Months ago I had the great privilege of spending an afternoon at Devil's Den just reading the word of God. In my listen for Him and to Him simple things came to me. We are called to go and make disciples around the world. In order to do that though we need to leave our comfortable lives and go places that we normally would not go to make these disciples. Go "into" the world where folks are at that do not know the Word of God. This is the hard part though that God puts on us. We can go "into" the world because that is what we are called to do, but yet we can not love the world or anything in the world. Then he redeems us with the fact that we are from God and have the ability to overcome everything because He is greater than the world itself. Maybe the irony in this is that this message came to me at the location it did "Devil's Den"
Prayer:
Dear awesome God, you call to be the messenger of the Good News in a world that is full of negative. give us the strength, courage, wisdom, and guidance to walk in a world full of land mines that hurt us and keep us in the world and not of the Word. Amen.
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