Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
The world is pulling your mind one direction, and Heaven is pulling on it the opposite direction. The world really has nothing to offer to you, let go of the world. God is giving you a taste of Heaven, thats the best place to be. So just focus on God and His living Presence. The world is pulling you down, and throwing negative things in your face. Pray. Pray to God to know what is right vs. wrong and pray for Him to protect you. Constantly communicate with Him while you walk through the world and you'll be alright. Don't worry. Look ahead to what God will bring you in the future.
Romans 8:5-8 (MSG)
Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.
Thank you for sharing. Really enjoyed and deeply felt your interpretations were right on. God bless u & your journey!
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