Which Faucet? - Thursday October 01, 2015
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. 1 John 2:15-17
I do not think it's early senility. I prefer to think it's the inherited family absentmindedness. Sometimes when standing at the sink I forget which is the hot and which the cold-water faucet. Recently I found myself at the kitchen sink waiting for the cold water to get hot. When I realized I had turned on the cold-water faucet and the futility of my patience, of course I asked myself, "What is this like?"
Waiting for hot water to come out of a cold-water faucet is like expecting the world to come through for us. We are so easily deceived into anticipating that people or things, power or fame or wealth, will fill our souls and make us happy (though we know Satan is the deceiver). That one special relationship, the new job, our first house, our first child-all these seem so likely to fulfill us. But John warns his readers, "Never give your hearts to this world or to any of the things in it. . . . For the whole world system, based as it is on men's primitive desires, their greedy ambitions and the glamour of all that they think splendid, is not derived from the Father at all, but from the world itself" (1 John 2:15-16 Phillips). We can run that tap as long as we like-we will never get hot water.
The love of the Father is all that will satisfy us. No other love reaches to the depths of our souls. Apart from His great compassion and truth, all else will be cold water.
Submitted by:
Dotty Vanderhorst
Cornerstone Community Church
Overland Park, Kansas
One-Year Reading Plan:
Isaiah 62:6-65:25
Philippians 2:19-3:3
Psalms 73:1-28
Proverbs 24:13-14
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