LOVE Out Of PLACE

Love is in the air! February is the month of love and romance and during it we are reminded what love is and what love does. However, as we read the Word and look at the world, we see that more often than not, love is misplaced.
Love, in its proper place, is the best thing in the world and a gift from God who IS Love (1 John 4:8 & 16). Yet like anything out of place, when it is misused or misapplied, only brokenness results.
We are warmed repeatedly about misplace love in the Bible, for example:

1. The LOVE OF SELF. 2Timothy 3:2 “For men shall be lovers of their own selves, (and as a result are) covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy”
2. The LOVE OF MONEY. 1Timothy 6:10 “For the love of money is the root of all evil: (not money itself, but the love of it) which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
3. The LOVE OF WORLD. 1John 2:15 “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.”
5. The LOVE OF PLEASURE. 2Timothy 3:4 talks of those who are “Traitors, heady, highminded, (because they are) lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God”
5. The LOVE OF DARKNESS. John 3:19 “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
We must be careful to place our love where it SHOULD be!

Matthew 22:37-39 “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

Think on these things and keep the SON in your eyes!