Your World View Matters!

From where you draw your guidance and direction and counsel matters.

A follower of Jesus described the love he learned from the Master, Jesus:

“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”

Down through the ages followers of Jesus have found this to be a Truth that has set them free.

Atheists on the other hand draw their guidance and direction and counsel from themselves or from the secular world around them. Because of that that difference between Godly love and worldly love could not be more stark.

Kieth Richards singing “Love”

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and love mars. And for any heart not strong enough or tough enough to take a lot of pain, love is like a cloud that pours a lot of rain. Love hurts, love hurts, it burns you like a flame when its hot. Some fools sing of happiness, some fools sing of bliss, of togetherness, some fools fool themselves I guess. But they're not fooling me. I know that true love isn't true. Love is just a lie.

Another secular poet sings, "Love is, what you want it to be."
No dear, love IS something very specific, definable, dependable. It does not change with the ebb and flow of our feelings. It is NOT subject to the behaviours of someone else.

Godly love is patient and kind and merciful and forgiving.

Secular love is obsessive and possessive and demanding.

Godly love is the willed, volitional desire to do good to the other.

Secular love is parasitic, waiting to get something in return.

The songs of Christians involve hope, and love, and thankfulness, and peace, and faithfulness, and longing, and giving and peace and gratefulness, and praise, and wonder.

The songs of the secular world involve anger and lust, cheating and being cheated on, and hate, and possessiveness, and misogyny, the need for money and power and possessions. The songs of the secular world involve perversion upon perversion, rebellion and violence and anarchy. The songs of the secular world mock the life-giving and glorify the life-destroying.

We become like those whose sermons we listen to the most.

If you want a life of peace, your world-view matters.