Dear Friends,

Babies reach for the shiny while ignoring the valuable. Give a baby a choice between a bright quarter and a ten dollar bill and you know what that baby is likely to choose. But its not only babies who are thus foolish. Are you choosing what is shiny and neglecting that which is truly valuable? Are you focusing on the temporal and ignoring the eternal? Think carefully about today’s devotional. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,

John Janney

• I John 2:15-17

  1 John 2:15-17  English Standard Version (ESV)
  Do Not Love the World
  15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life[a]—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

I John 2:15-17

“The world is a sea of glass: a pageant of fond delight,

a theater of vanity, a labyrinth of error,

a gulf of grief, a cry of filthiness, a vale of misery,

a spectacle of woe, a river of tears, a stage of deceit,

a cage full of devils, a den of scorpions,

a wilderness of wolves, a cabin of bears,

a whirlwind of passions, a fained comedy,

a delectable frenzy; where is false delight, assured grief,

certain sorrow, uncertain pleasure; lasting woe

fickle wealth, long heaviness, short joy.”

[Arthur Dent, The Plain Man’s Pathway to Heaven quoted in Sinclair B. Ferguson, The Pundit’s Folly: Chronicles of an Empty Life, (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1995), p. iv]