DAILY HOMILIES #do not love the world

"He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it." This world is not our home. This is why we cannot find lasting peace on Earth. Again, this explains why the world hates us. If we belonged here, the world would love us. We are only sojourners in a strange world. Our homeland is heaven – that is the land flowing with milk and honey. To get there, we cannot afford to love this world; instead, we must deny ourselves, take our crosses and follow Jesus’ footsteps.

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” (1 John 2:16-17)