THE CAPTURED HEART




“If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him”. 1 John 2:15b.

There are many things in this world that are craving for our attention and our heart. These things ranges from legitimate to illegitimate things. Legitimate things like family, career, job, ministry, religious activities etc. And illegitimate things which are aimed at satisfying our ego, greed and flesh. These are the sinful desires and the lust for the things of this world.

The aim of the devil is to capture your heart away from God to another direction. His aim is to stop you from loving God the Father wholeheartedly. When the devil succeeds in achieving this, he has won the battle over your life.

This is one reason why you should keep your heart in check always, to ensure that the love for God the Father is your priority and not the love for any man or anything.

We must be careful of whom or what wins our heart, because anything that wins our heart automatically gets us and dictates how our lives goes. Our heart should primarily be to love God, then other things can follow. We can’t and shouldn’t love anything first before God.

Our ultimate goal and desire is to ensure that we love God the Father with our total being. We cannot love God and love the world at the same time (1 John 2:15), it is impossible-just like you can’t serve God and mammon or materialism simultaneously.

When God takes His rightful place in our hearts, then can we love the legitimate things in our lives correctly; for God must come first and He must also get all of our hearts.

“For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica…”  2 Timothy 4:10a.

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