For A Rational Man To Be So Attached To A Bubble, Is A Most Irrational Thing!

Worldliness is an undue attachment to this world. 

It is living for this world...its riches, its honor, its joys and its cares. 

It is living by the principles of this world: greed, covetousness, deceit and lust.

Nothing is more dangerous to the souls of men than the love of the world.
 
Nothing more effectually chokes out the influence of the gospel in a man's heart than the cares of this world.
 
Nothing is more difficult to avoid than an undue attachment to this world.

Therefore, John sets these four words up as a beacon. 

They stand in blazing letters to warn us of great danger: "LOVE NOT THE WORLD!"

Beloved, this world and all that it offers, is no more than a bubble that soon must burst!

Your money, your farms, your houses, your influence, your families...everything here is temporary. 

It will all vanish away!

We laugh at the small child who cries when the bubbles he is playing with burst. 

But, for a rational man to be so attached to a bubble, is a most irrational thing!

What fools they are who love and seek this world!

I cannot warn you enough of the danger of worldliness...of loving, seeking, and living for this world!

Are you God's child?

Are you risen with Christ?

Do you live in the hope of eternal glory?

Then count this world to be a dead thing.
 
Live no longer for this world.
 
Set your heart on things above.
 
Live above this pile of rubbish that must soon burn!
 
Live to do the will of God, seek the glory of Christ, further the gospel of the grace of God, and serve the people of God. 

Quit seeking those things for which unbelieving men live...

And seek those things which are above...life, immortality, and glory.

~Don Fortner~