The World's Search For Love
Above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
Colossians 3:14
The people of the world want love very much. Loving, being loved, and making love are viewed as the ultimate high. Love is seen as the way to experience emotional extremes: you’ll never be as happy nor as sad as when you’re in love.
Today’s music feeds that quest for love. Throughout much of it is the same underlying message: either the fantasy of a love sought or the despair of a love lost. People continue to chase that elusive dream. They base their concept of love on what it does for them. Songs, plays, films, books, and TV programs continually perpetuate the fantasy—the dream of a perfect love perfectly fulfilled.
The world’s love is unforgiving, conditional, and self–centered. It focuses on desire, self–pleasure, and lust—the very opposite of God’s perfect love. People search for love, but it’s not true love; it is Satan’s perversion.
MacArthur, J. (2001). Truth for today : A daily touch of God's grace (Page 194). Nashville, Tenn.: J. Countryman.
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Colossians 3:14
The people of the world want love very much. Loving, being loved, and making love are viewed as the ultimate high. Love is seen as the way to experience emotional extremes: you’ll never be as happy nor as sad as when you’re in love.
Today’s music feeds that quest for love. Throughout much of it is the same underlying message: either the fantasy of a love sought or the despair of a love lost. People continue to chase that elusive dream. They base their concept of love on what it does for them. Songs, plays, films, books, and TV programs continually perpetuate the fantasy—the dream of a perfect love perfectly fulfilled.
The world’s love is unforgiving, conditional, and self–centered. It focuses on desire, self–pleasure, and lust—the very opposite of God’s perfect love. People search for love, but it’s not true love; it is Satan’s perversion.
MacArthur, J. (2001). Truth for today : A daily touch of God's grace (Page 194). Nashville, Tenn.: J. Countryman.
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