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Dear Fellow Seekers,
"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him" (1 John 2:15, NIV).
In 1933, French author Andre Malraux published Man's Fate, a story about an ill-fated Marxist uprising in Shanghai, China, in the 1920s. In the story, a Marxist terrorist, Ch'en, is walking down the street when his first teacher, a Christian minister, approaches him and starts a conversation about Ch'en's loss of faith. Little does the teacher know that Ch'en, at the moment, is carrying a bomb and is on his way to a political assassination! Ch'en replies that he hasn't lost his faith; he has simply put it in politics, that's all.
"What political faith," his former teacher asks with sadness, "will destroy death?" In other words, no matter your political ideas, no matter the utopia you hope to create, it will never defeat humanity's great scourge: death. While continuing to show us what it means to "walk in the light," this week's texts point us to the temporality of our world in contrast to the eternal life found only in God.
John 15:19 (New International Version) "If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you."
Discription of The Lord's Coming: 2 Peter 3:10-12 (New International Version) "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat."
"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him" (1 John 2:15, NIV).
In 1933, French author Andre Malraux published Man's Fate, a story about an ill-fated Marxist uprising in Shanghai, China, in the 1920s. In the story, a Marxist terrorist, Ch'en, is walking down the street when his first teacher, a Christian minister, approaches him and starts a conversation about Ch'en's loss of faith. Little does the teacher know that Ch'en, at the moment, is carrying a bomb and is on his way to a political assassination! Ch'en replies that he hasn't lost his faith; he has simply put it in politics, that's all.
"What political faith," his former teacher asks with sadness, "will destroy death?" In other words, no matter your political ideas, no matter the utopia you hope to create, it will never defeat humanity's great scourge: death. While continuing to show us what it means to "walk in the light," this week's texts point us to the temporality of our world in contrast to the eternal life found only in God.
John 15:19 (New International Version) "If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you."
Discription of The Lord's Coming: 2 Peter 3:10-12 (New International Version) "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat."
God Bless! Betty