FAITH CAPSULE: One who hates the world will love the word of God.
1 Samuel 17
Jesus was speaking to all, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24) Are you consciously or unconsciously serving more than one master? There is no ‘in-between’ neither is there a neutral ground when it comes to answering who you serve.
To serve God is to love God. Loving God is serving God. Do you claim to love God and fall short in every area of serving Him? Anyone who claim to love God and not constant and consistent in serving God is not on the side of truth. One that loves the word of God will hate the world of today. It is written in the book of 1 John 2:15, “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.” Today among the acclaimed believers, so many claims to love the Lord while fully engaged in the things of the world compare to how they engage to the things of the Lord. Without doubt, if the love of the Father is in every acclaimed believer, loving Him with all heart, all strength and all soul should be in place. With the love God, no sacrifice will be too difficult for any acclaimed believer to render unto God. Obedient is sacrifice. Are you obedient to the word of the Lord? Are you the same when you are inside or outside a group of believers? Man can be deceived, but God cannot be deceived. Have you turned to obeying the word rather than the world of mammon? Obedience to the word of God is what makes one to be qualified as giving reasonable service or sacrifice. Giving a reasonable service identifies one as true lover of the Lord more than the world.
Goliath was of the world and he also spoke as one of the world when he defied the armies of God. David, by virtue of his love for the name of God, responded to Goliath, “For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” (1 Samuel 17:26) Goliath represented evil and David hates evil. To hate evil is to love God. Pay attention to the world around you and note it that they are the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. (1 John 2:16) Serve God.
Prayer for today: Ask God to direct your heart to the true love of His holy name.