1 John 2:15-17
Do Not Love the World
15Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
St. John was told by Jesus not to love this world...The next world is better...It will be with our Father and His Son...What we have and get from this world is the cravings of a sinful man...In our eyes we search for the temporary...We have lust in our eyes and take on temptation for short term pleasures...Man boasts and thinks about what he has in material possessions...Those who love these things, and are not from the Father...It is because these things did not come from the Father...This world goes by in a blink...These possessions will mean nothing...But if treasure is the Father, we will live forever...We must learn to focus on the soul and on eternity...
We must learn to love those things that are of God's world...Those things will remain with us forever...